HALF-FULL REPORT 05/31/13

Don’t you think it’s high time to point out the undiluted racism of the Zero Presidency and its supporters?

Racism is, of course, what got Zero nominated and elected to begin with, back in 2008.  No one, certainly no Democrat or Libtard journalist, would have paid any attention whatever to a freshman Senator with exactly his résumé if he were just another white guy. 

He was nominated by the Dems and people voted for him only because he was "black," because of his race.  If that isn’t racism, then there’s no such thing.

And as we all know, the white media elite’s universal defense for any criticism of Zero is to scream "Racism!"  This was typified by the WaPo’s lead white libtard, E. J. Dionne on Monday (5/27), claiming "racism lurks beneath" any critiques of his messiah, which for Dionne are always "preposterously false."

But let’s now ask, do you think that, on Monday (5/27) the leader of the Democrat Party in Louisiana, Karen Carter Peterson, would have denounced opponents of Obamacare as racists – "it’s about race; it’s about the race of this African-American president" – if she weren’t black herself?

Do you think that, yesterday (5/30) on MSNBC, sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson would have defended Eric Holder as "the Moses of our time," if he weren’t black himself?  (Funny, though, I never knew that Moses was black or that Holder was Jewish.)

While Peterson and Dyson were heavily criticized for their statements, no one had the nerve to criticize them for being racially motivated.  It’s about time they were… don’t you think?

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As last week’s HFR noted, Eric Holder is toast.  This week he’s melba toast.  His PR scam was an epic fail, with a host of major media just saying no to an off-the-record meeting with him yesterday (5/30) – including AP, the New York Times (!), Reuters, CNN, McClatchy, HuffPo, and Fox.

The HFR Word of the Week, describing Holder’s performance, is cabotinage: the behavior of a second-rate actor obviously playing to the audience.

Newsweek/Daily Beast yesterday called for Holder to resign.  There’s no doubt whatever that he committed flat-out perjury testifying to Congress on May 15.  When the House Pubs say they have "great concern" about this, that’s code for "You bet your sweet bippy he perjured himself."

Holder is going down the tubes.  On Wednesday (5/29), AP chief Gary Pruitt revealed that DOJ secretly monitored not just a few but "thousands and thousands" of news editors’ and reporters’ phone calls.  So he has to resign, and quickly, before the House indicts him for perjury.  If we’re lucky, he won’t and Zero will continue to support him out of sheer arrogance and hubris.

By hanging on, you see, the worse it gets and the madder the media folks get who’ve been protecting Zero from all the other scandals swallowing up his second term.  Once that protection is gone, it’s Zero who’s toast, not just his slimeball AG.

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What other scandals?  Sibelius-gate for one.  On Fox News on Tuesday (5/28), Charles Krauthammer called the HHS Secretary’s shaking down private healthcare companies for money to support Obamacare "the Obama Administration’s Iran-Contra." Or, as Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) puts it: "Kathleen Sibelius, Meet Oliver North."

OK, so we’ve got Zero’s Iran-Contra, Zero’s AG secretly spying on journalists and lying about it under oath, plus Zero’s cover-up of the Benghazi Massacre.  But there’s a fourth, and it’s much worse than the others, for it involves the most hated government agency in America, the ITRS:  the Internal Taxpayer Rape Service.

Thus, as a Quinnipiac poll released yesterday (5/30) discloses, seventy-six percent of voters want a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS for targeting conservative groups, including 63 percent of Democrats, 88 percent of Republicans and 78 percent of independent voters.

Realize that the poll was conducted before the news story broke yesterday (5/30) that IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman made 157 recorded visits to the Obama White House, far more than anyone else including Cabinet secretaries.

This places Zero directly at the scandal’s center. Dick Morris explains why "this scandal will destroy him."  For once, Morris may be right, for he knew Nixon and sees Nixon’s madness in Zero.  Here’s the first of many videos to come showing how much they are alike:

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Time out for a story.  Drudge is running a headline this week, "Bangkok Ranked World’s Top Travel Spot".  But the linked Reuters report doesn’t have a photo of Bangkok (a bad one of New York, go figure), so Drudge posted this one:

This is Wat Arun, the Temple of the Dawn, on the opposite side of the Chao Phraya river from the main city.  Bangkok may be inundated by travelers now, but it sure wasn’t when I first went there in 1961.  I was alone, age 17, and saw hardly any other Westerners.  I was fascinated by Wat Arun, and climbed the steep steps up to the base of its central tower or prang. 

On the back side of the prang I noticed this cable ladder – two steel cables with iron bars wired on as steps – going all the way to the very top.  It must be for the monks or repairmen, I concluded.  You can see it on the left side of the prang in this picture:

No one was around.  I was seized by a 17 year-old spasm of insane recklessness and up I went.  I made it all the way to the top, where dangling from these rings I could hold on to were all these thin bronze plates tinkling together in the wind.  I liberated one of them, and then noticed I had an audience.  Every boat on the river was stopped, and everyone in the boats was looking up at me and pointing.  Oops, time to go.

(Now on the top there’s an elaborate Trident of Shiva which wasn’t there back then.  Again, you can see the cable ladder on the right:)

I got back down in one piece, luckily regaining my footing after slipping a couple of times.  I realized I had done something astonishingly foolish – and clearly illegal.  I wondered if there would be cops waiting to arrest me at the bottom.  But no, there was no one, and I scurried on my way.

I tell this story not just because it’s fun to relate, but also to emphasize the point in yesterday’s (5/30) How to End Posterior Osculation of Islamism – that college kids can be the tip of the spear in attacking and ridiculing Islamism as they will take the risk, feeling invulnerable.  Today, I can’t believe what I did on Wat Arun in 1961.  But at the time, it just seemed like the thing to do.  Standing up to Islamic bullying can seem like the thing to do on campuses around the country, if we encourage it cleverly enough.

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Back to Lunacy Center.  Nothing could more exemplify the absolute total complete certifiable lunacy of Washington this week than the revelation that the Gang of Eight Immigration Bill is now over 1,000 pages long.  Pray that Ted Cruz can drive a stake through this monster’s heart.

Or how about this one?  The most obnoxious jerk in Congress (and isn’t that saying something?), Alan Grayson (D-FL), has dropped a bill, HR 2906 – The Paid Vacation Act.  It would create another "entitlement," forcing at gunpoint (that’s what a law does) employers to give their employees a paid vacation.  That’s just flat-out fascism.

Yet it’s anti-capitalist fascism that is amazingly widespread all over the world.  Scan down this list of legally required Minimum Employment Leave by country – and prepare to be astounded.  Prepare to be proud of America, which is the only country where it simply says:  "None."  That’s freedom.

By contrast, take a country in Europe such as Portugal.  While the Minimum Leave required by law is supposedly "22 working days, up to 25 without work absences in previous year," it’s worse than that.  22 working days means one full month of paid leave – but in addition, employers are required to pay their employees a "Christmas Bonus" of another month’s pay. 

In other words, in Portugal, an employer has to pay his employees 14 months of salary for 12 months work – and of course, he has to pay all payroll taxes to the government for those 2 extra months as well.  It’s the same or similar in most every other country in Europe.  And the Euroweenies wonder why the EU now has record high unemployment.

Mandated über-vacations are of course not the only reason for high unemployment.  Zero’s monumental regulatory hamstringing of businesses is a primary cause of our own double-digit unemployment, plus making millions dependent on unemployment and disability checks so they’ll vote Democrat.

Yet another example of Washington Lunacy will come next Monday (6/03), when Zero will sign the UN International Gun Control Treaty.  How is it possible, you ask, for a President to sign a Treaty that hasn’t been ratified by the Senate beforehand?  That’s like him signing legislation before it’s been passed by Congress.  Such legislation has no force of law, it’s not a law at all, right?

The answer is, in today’s Washington run by our Outlaw Federal Government, it doesn’t matter.  Zero will claim that his signing the UN Treaty has the force of law until the Senate holds a ratification vote and it fails to pass.  All Dirty Harry Reid has to do is stall and never hold the vote – and Zero will feel free to enforce "international gun control" in America.

The NRA better figure out the most effective ways for its members to disobey such enforcement, and fast.

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Nonetheless, the most important hit-the-bulls’-eye statement of the week was Senator Rand Paul’s.  On ABC News on Sunday (5/25), he said that Zero is "losing the moral authority to lead this nation."  This loss of moral legitimacy is what the Chinese call "losing the Mandate of Heaven."  It’s slipping right through Zero’s fingers.  He’s going from Hero to Zero right before our eyes. 

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OK – time to end with some instructive fun.  Last week’s HFR ended with It’s Better In The USA, by Eagles founder Glen Frey.  I should say co-founder, though, as Frey’s partner in the Eagles was Don Henley.  He went solo as well after the Eagles’ breakup in 1980, and wrote a song in raw anger over how the press, especially TV news, treated the deaths of his friends Natalie Wood (1981) and John Belushi (1982), as well as its frenzy over the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan (1981).

I don’t think there’s ever been a song that burns the media so badly as Henley’s Dirty Laundry. We all need to listen to it today.  Since it’s also a fabulous rocker, listen and revel in the music and the lyrics.  (Note: the lines "Is the head dead yet… Get the widow on the set" refer to Reagan fighting for his life, while the TV press hideously hopes of Nancy being interviewed as a grieving widow.)  SPEAKERS TURNED UP!

I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry

We can do "The Innuendo"
We can dance and sing
When it’s said and done we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry!