Conservatives: Trayvon Martin Was "A Wannabe Gangsta"

Rightbloggers Find the Trayvon Martin Case Proof of Racism -- Against White People By Roy Edroso

 One of the enduring myths of American conservatism is that there's still racism in this country -- and it's suffered by white people at the hands of blacks and white liberal race-traitors.

Normal people who've been out of their homes a time or two will find that puzzling. But for rightbloggers it's a home truth.

Don't believe it? Feast your eyes on the rightblogger coverage of the Trayvon Martin case.


As you've probably heard, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot dead by 28-year-old George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. The white shooter had called 911 to complain that a black guy was walking around his neighborhood, then opened fire.

There has been some dispute about what preceded the killing: An unnamed witness claims the 140-lb. Martin physically attacked the 240-lb. Zimmerman; no one knows for sure whether this happened before or after Martin saw the stranger coming at him with a gun.

What's not in dispute is that Martin was unarmed (though he was carrying Skittles and wearing a hoodie), and that Zimmerman was not arrested by the local police after he shot Martin dead.

This has expectedly enraged a lot of people who consider it one more in a long series of incidents in which white people have killed black people for nothing and gotten away with it.

Rightbloggers were enraged too -- that anyone felt sorry for the dead black kid rather than for the live white killer.

Their main argument was: Why does a white guy killing a black guy and getting away with it make you libtards think of racism?

Neal Boortz admitted that "as things look now," it seemed as if Zimmerman were "a law enforcement wannabe who was destined to end up in a controversy like this." He added that "Trayvon Martin's family says that they don't believe that their son would have been killed if it were not for the color of his skin. I believe they're right. "

But just because he wouldn't have been killed if he weren't black, said Boortz, didn't mean racism was involved.

"People scream racism any time there is a negative interaction between a black and a white person," said Boortz. "There is no evidence that I've seen here which indicates that Zimmerman harbored a belief in the genetic superiority of one race or another... Perhaps Zimmerman just doesn't like black people, though there is not yet any evidence of that..."

Besides, said Boortz, "the entire situation, as you would expect, is now being used by various race pimps and organizations to grab a little publicity for themselves while agitating the crowd and muddying the issue. Foremost among these people is that race-baiting creep from New York City Al Sharpton. The memory of
Trayvon Martin, by all accounts an exemplary young man, is only soiled by the presence of Sharpton."

There you go: Martin was killed because, in Boortz' words, he was black, but the real insult to Martin is that Al Sharpton complained about it.

Some of the brethren asserted that Zimmerman wasn't really white. (To be fair, from photographs Zimmerman could be taken for Hispanic, or Italian-American.)

"Accused killer 'spanish-speaking minority with many black family members and friends,'" headlined the Drudge Report. "Trayvon Martin Shooter George Zimmerman Is Hispanic Member Of Black/Hispanic Family," said Pat Dollard.

Dan McLaughlin of RedState also called Zimmerman "a Hispanic man," but couldn't leave it at that: He yelled that liberals were "still complaining, a quarter century later" about the Willie Horton ads (apparently because Michael Kinsley mentioned them once), then challenged his readers: "If the point is to use crime stories to dramatize real world concerns," he said, "what about a story that affects a lot more people than the fairness and competence of the Sanford, Florida police department: incursions into the U.S. by Mexican drug cartels?"

Oh, and we suppose if we shot you now, that'd be some kind of "hate crime," right? Sheesh.

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McLaughlin then repeated a bunch of news items about drug crimes allegedly committed by Mexicans in America and -- though most of his citations were from mainstream media sources -- accused the mainstream media of trying to cover them up with the Martin story: "The reality is that the Trayvon Martin case is being pushed by left-wing organizations eager to provide a backdrop of racial strife to this year's elections," claimed McLaughlin, "a dangerous tactic, given how frequently popular agitation over these kinds of racially divisive stories have led to riots that leave people dead or homeless and local businesses and jobs destroyed."

Yeah, someone could get hurt -- by which he meant victims of imaginary riots, not some black kid who was actually shot to death.

When Zimmerman's whiteness wasn't at issue, Martin's blackness was: Dan Riehl made much of the fact that a picture of Martin "observed in the media... has been lightened, or softened, somehow. Along with other possible alterations, he looks far more, perhaps innocent is the right word..."

"More white" seems to be the phrase Riehl was groping for. Charles Johnson noticed that the darker Martin photo was actually a photograph of a photograph, which might explain its relative darkness. Johnson also reproduced some deranged Twitter responses to his discovery by Riehl himself (e.g., "Fact is, if [Johnson] walked down the street I grew up on w his ponytail. The white kids and blacks kidz would've kicked his ass 2gether").

Reihl responded with a post attacking "the race-based ignorance of so many blacks I'm seeing in attacking me... blacks especially should feel insulted and upset at the media, including the AP - not me."

Really? Why should blacks be mad at the outlets that ran the photo, rather than at the guy who said the lighter picture made Martin look "far more, perhaps innocent" (and who accused them of "race-based ignorance")?

Because the AP, by running the photo, "appears to be saying to them, lighter is better, while darker is bad," explained Riehl, "and they aren't even able to see that, the pre-judgment and ignorance on display is just sad."

"It's sad to see so many black Americans still falling for it after so many decades," further lamented Riehl in his more-in-sorrow-than-in-racism mode. "Their minds haven't been freed, all that's changed is the owners of the plantation. Too many would be black leaders are too happy to lead them down a path through a cotton field of ignorance and hate ending at the ballot box, before just going on and on with no real end in sight."

Amazingly, African-Americans rallied for the fallen Martin instead of for their true friend, Dan Riehl. Yet the brave Riehl soldiered on for racial harmony, posting shortly thereafter, under the curious headline "The Irony Of Obama: He May Have Freed Whites, More Than Blacks," this racial outreach:

"There is an interesting irony playing out underneath this whole Martin, Zimmerman tragedy the media -- and more importantly, Obama -- now seems intent on making into a national event... last time I looked, there's a black guy in the White House. You want me to cry and feel sorry for you because America is such a racist country, or I need to explore some hidden racism deep within myself? Get over it, loser..."

That's one righteous Caucasian, right there, still waiting resentfully for his ghetto pass.
Other rightbloggers thought the real outrage in the Trayvon Martin case was that famous black people (or, in rightblogger lingo, race pimps) were upset by it.

In response to Jesse Jackson's involvement, RedState diarist gawken raved about "the lynching of Martin's killer" and "Al Sharpton and the usual crew of race pimps." He also triumphantly quoted Jackson's famous statement that "there is nothing more painful to me at this stage of my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved," which he apparently took to mean that Jackson would approve of blowing Martin away if he weren't such a hypocrite.

"Jesse Jackson Uses Trayvon Martin's Death to Restore the Plantation," said Howard Nemerov at PJ Tatler. (To those confused by that headline, see the Rightblogger Glossary, Page 42, "liberal plantation.") "Curiously," added Nemerov, "Jackson didn't protest when Black, self-employed roofing contractor Hygens Labidou defended himself against two white racists who called him a 'N---r' while trying to pull him from his truck and murder him."

Umm -- what? There was a racist crime in protest of which Nemerov would have welcomed Jesse Jackson? Don't be silly -- Nemerov was just trying to make a point:

"Labidou's story is important," said Nemerov, "because Sanford police interviewed a witness who reported that Martin was on top of Zimmerman and beating Zimmerman when the shooting occurred. Curiously, Jackson didn't mention this even though he claims he wants justice, which used to mean innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt... Meet the new Uncle Tom: Jesse Jackson."

To recap: One of Labidou's two assailants, unlike Martin, was armed with a knife. And Labidou, unlike Zimmerman so far, was charged with a crime. Other than that, totally the same thing. (Update: Our mistake -- Labidou wasn't charged; one of his assailants was, for causing his partner's death in commission of the assault on Labidou.)

Inevitably President Obama made a statement about the case that was relatively anodyne ("Tragedy... If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," etc); also inevitably, this enraged the belligerati.

At American Thinker Rick Moran complained, "this is the second racial incident in which Obama has jumped the gun and either criticized 'stupid' police as he did in the Gates controversy, or local authorities as he did last Friday in the Trayvon Martin tragedy." In the Henry Louis Gates case, longtime readers will recall, the cops confronted a black guy in his own home because they assumed, the house being nice, that he had to be a burglar, and when he protested they arrested him.

Moran also accused Obama of "essentially calling for the shooter to be arrested and convicted," which bizarre accusation was not borne out by anything Obama said -- which became more obvious when Moran added a "clarification" to his post in which he didn't apologize or back off in any way, but instead insisted "only little children and liberals believe that bringing DoJ into this incendiary local matter doesn't guarantee Zimmerman's eventual arrest and conviction for...something."

Moran then raved that "hysteria ginned up over this horrible incident will ensure that authorities will shape their investigation to satisfy the howling mob... Like it's never happened before? Just ask Sacco and Vanzetti." This is probably the first time a right blogger has asserted the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti, but as we've seen, racial issues can drive these people to extremities.

Many just said the hell with it and went for the "blacks are criminals" argument.

"Murder is largely an intraracial crime," said Scott Johnson of Power Line. "Almost all murders of blacks are committed by other blacks... If race hustlers like Al Sharpton really had the interests of the black community at heart, they would devote themselves to doing everything in their power to have violent black criminals separated from the community of law-abiding black citizens."

So, in Johnson's view, Martin's killing is just an excuse black people are using to draw attention away from their own crimes against themselves. Johnson used as an example a black guy who killed three black people; at American Thinker, Michael Filozof went him one better and used the example of a black guy who killed a white guy. Then he talked about Reginald Denny and O.J. Simpson, and how "the truth of the matter is that 'civil rights' cases are often little more than reverse lynch mobs... one-third of rapes committed against white women (approximately 37,000) were perpetrated by blacks..."

You get the picture.

This isn't even getting into what the commenter and message-board contributors are saying. We got a taste of that sort of thing last July, when we wrote about right bloggers' factually challenged story about a black crime wave engulfing America -- prompting a huge wave of hostile comments to send in their racial slurs (e.g.,

"Only members of the Negro Worshiping Church of Liberal.dom could remain steadfastly loyal to their black gods despite the white genocide going on around them," "Blacks are cowards, they gang up in packs, and attack weak helpless and elderly victims, but when they are alone they are total chickenshits," etc).

Give those guys some credit, though -- at least they weren't trying to pretend that they weren't racist.

 Courtesy of the New Miami Times

Trayvon Martin: No, That's Not His Facebook Page Showing "Gangsta" Photos UPDATED By Gus Garcia-Roberts

Update: Wonderfully, Business Insider touted the bogus photo as accurate in a story on how the media is badly reporting the Trayvon Martin saga. Their source for the photo: white power message board Stormfront.

Update 2: See the response from the Business Insider author at the end of this post.

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If you haven't come across the photo to the right, you probably will in the next day or two. Gross racists and assorted other morons are claiming that it's from the Facebook page of Trayvon Martin, the teenager shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in Sanford, and that somehow that has bearing on the case.

There is no evidence that the photo is of Trayvon Martin, although there is plenty of evidence against it. Even popular right-wing blogger Dan Riehl, who claimed to be among the first to find the Facebook page, admits that it might not be him: "It doesn't appear to be the same Trayvon Martin. But I'm still not sure. It's still linked."

The photo and accompanying link to the profile of a Facebook user named Trayvon Martin has been circulating heavily in the last twenty-four hours. Click on its Facebook shares, and you see the rabble proclaiming that the media has duped the public into believing that Martin was a "sweet kid":

For all those wondering this is the most recent picture of the shooting victim Trayvon Martin. Not the warm hearted pictures the media is feeding the public. I'm not passing judgement till the REAL FACTS of the case come out but lets just be real about the situation.

Cute picture. How come the media only shows the 5 year old picture and not this current facebook photo?

Yep it does look like it could be Obamas son!

Stay oura places u dont belong n u wont have ne problems. If u don't respect our constitution .......feel free to get out of our country

​There's a wonderful horror-logic to that last one, considering that Martin was visiting his father when he was shot.
But the "Trayvon Martin" the page belongs to lists his school as Myers Middle School. All of his relatives are listed as living in Savannah, Georgia, where there is a Myers Middle School.

The late Martin, who grew up in Miami Gardens, went to Norland Middle and Highland Oaks Middle schools, and more recently attended Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School.

Trayvon Martin's real Facebook page is here, complete with photos and information clearly depicting him, and updated before the date of his death.

The bogus page probably belongs either to another Trayvon Martin, or to a kid who renamed his page in tribute.

Not that it matters. If you're screwed up enough to believe that a 17-year-old unarmed kid deserved to die because he once wore sagging shorts and flipped off the camera, then you're going to keep sharing that image regardless of who it depicts.

Update: Michael Brendan Dougherty, author of the Business Insider post which used the bogus photo, says: "Your characterization of what we did is misleading."

He adds:

We characterized the source of the photo as "a racist message board" precisely to give readers a sense of the credibility - owing to the fact that we did not yet know the original source of the photo.

Once it was reported on the Miami New Time's website that the photo was not of Trayvon, we updated the post and took down that photo. And linked back to this site.
Our story was about the pushback and backlash - both the decent questions that were raised, and the racist muckracking.

Only problem, as noted by the Columbia Journalism Review: Dougherty never suggested that the photos might not be of the Trayvon Martin in question. And his conceit, that mainstream news outlets might have used the gangsta photo of Martin instead of the schoolboy pics they've been using, makes no sense if it's not a photo of him.

Dougherty says of this post: "Please re-write it."

No.
Courtesy of RawStory

Trayvon Martin’s father: ‘They are still disrespecting my son’ after death by Andrew Jones

The parents of Trayvon Martin strongly condemned new reports that negatively reflect their son in an emotional press conference in Sanford, Florida Monday afternoon. 

Both parents responded to two reports released Monday, where Martin’s shooter George Zimmerman claimed the teenager was the aggressor during the incident and an Associated Press report that found Martin was suspended from school for possessing marijuana.

“Even in death, Trayvon is gone and will not be returning to us,” said Tracy Martin, the slain teenager’s father.

“Even in death, they are still disrespecting my son. And I feel that’s a shame.”

Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton added, “They’ve killed my son, and now they’re trying to kill his reputation.”

 

National Outrage: Trayvon Martin Killing.

The U.S. Justice Department and the FBI are looking into the matter. Sanford, Florida is the center of the controversy. A young teenager was gunned down by a neighborhood watch captain. The public outcry has now stirred the debate once again about racial profiling and gun laws. The White House express regret. The person, George Zimmerman 28, who fired upon teenager Trayvon Martin, 17 is for now a free man. Zimmerman is fearing for his life after incident.

The conservative media is trying to ignore the story and white supremacists are cheering for more incidents like this to happen.



That was the 911 tape in which the shooter was warned not to apprehend Martin. Below is the picture of the teenager, and George Zimmerman, the shooter. Zimmerman is White (Hispanic).

 From the New York Magazine, the detailing of the controversy.

In what is becoming an increasingly well-known sequence of events, on February 26, during halftime of the NBA All-Star Game, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin walked to buy Skittles and iced tea from 7-Eleven in Sanford, Florida. On his way back to his father's house in a gated community, Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who had just called 911 to report Martin as "a real suspicious guy." Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Latino man, claimed self-defense and has not been arrested or charged, but now finds himself at the center of a prickly national conversation about race, guns, and more. What started as a local news story has, thanks in large part to Internet outrage, become an unavoidable, albeit unresolved, story covered everywhere from leftist blogs to CNN and the New York Times.

Over the weekend, police released eight 911 calls related to the case, sparking a new round of press attention. In the recordings, Zimmerman, who called the police nearly 50 times in the last year, can be heard saying, "This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something." Martin, he said, had "his hand in his waistband. And he's a black male ... Something's wrong with him. Yup, he's coming to check me out. He's got something in his hands. I don't know what his deal is." He added, "These assholes, they always get away."



The dispatcher tells Zimmerman not to follow Martin, but in subsequent calls from neighbors, a struggle can be heard, followed by a gunshot. Mother Jones has a very detailed rundown of the case, and the tangential issues it raises, including, but not limited to, Florida's self-defense laws, the checkered past of the Sanford police, gun control, and potential federal government involvement.

A petition from Martin's family to the local D.A. has been signed online more than 400,000 times, and received a huge boost this weekend as the media homed in on the disturbing details. The New York Times reported on the story for two straight days in its national news section, in addition to a Saturday column by Charles Blow. "This case has reignited a furor about vigilante justice, racial-profiling and equitable treatment under the law," Blow wrote, "and it has stirred the pot of racial strife."

USA Today and the Washington Post also featured detailed reports over the last few days, as did both New York City tabloids. Local Florida publications have been on the story since the beginning, although they lack the reach of the nation's biggest newspapers. But before it was in the hands of influential columnists, the story had already become unavoidable online. As early as March 8, Huffington Post reporter Trymaine Lee was spreading the story, following up seven times since. The site now has a dedicated section and banner for "The Trayvon Martin Tragedy."

The details behind Martin's death have spread socially too. "Trayvon Martin didn't die so we can create a race war, he died so we can promote better understanding," Russell Simmons tweeted, pointing to a Facebook page with thousands of followers. Following suit, Google traffic has skyrocketed in the last few days:

 

And Martin has become a fixture on cable news, as well — with one exception: The progressive blog Think Progress reports that through this afternoon, CNN had dedicated 41 segments to the killing, compared to MSNBC's thirteen, and just one on Fox News. Political implications aside, this story is now officially too big to ignore.

Update: Asked about the shooting this afternoon, White House spokesman Jay Carney said, "We here in the White House are aware of the incident, and we understand that the local FBI office has been in contact with the local authorities and is monitoring the situation." He added, "Our thoughts and prayers go out to Trayvon Martin's family, but obviously we're not going to wade into a local law enforcement matter."

The conservative media isn't covering the story and white supremacists online praised the shooter. This is what we're living in as American citizens. Florida has passed a controversial law called "Stand Your Ground". A firearm owner can use deadly force if the person felt threatened by an alleged attacker. Also did the shooter utter a "racial slur" while on the phone with the police dispatcher? The controversial phrase "fucking coons" was played and they can't confirm or deny it but it's clearly a slur in the video posted below.




There were more 911 tapes. The witness.



As of October 1, 2005, Florida became a "Stand-your-ground" state. The Florida law is a self-defense, self-protection law. It has four key components:

1. It establishes that law-abiding residents and visitors may legally presume the threat of bodily harm or death from anyone who breaks into a residence or occupied vehicle and may use defensive force, including deadly force, against the intruder.
2. In any other place where a person “has a right to be,” that person has “no duty to retreat” if attacked and may “meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”
3. In either case, a person using any force permitted by the law is immune from criminal prosecution or civil action and cannot be arrested unless a law enforcement agency determines there is probable cause that the force used was unlawful.
4. If a civil action is brought and the court finds the defendant to be immune based on the parameters of the law, the defendant will be awarded all costs of defense.

Once again, Republicans caters to the extremes. They're busy wrapping their asses and eventually their necks in preparedness/defense of these culture wars. This firearm law is a prime example of the Republicans and its allies in the conservative movement catering the gun lobbyist groups such as Gun Owners of America and the National Rifle Association. These laws abashedly give a gun owner authority to shoot and kill an apparent threat without even posing an imminent threat. Picture this if this was a white person being killed by a Black watch captain and the "stand your ground" defense was used. It's a shame though, a young life cut and another fearing that his future is uncertain. If the law doesn't get him, he'll forever be ridiculed by the media or the family of this young teenager.

"Citizen Journalist" Jason Mattera ambushes Chris Rock

Jason Mattera, a conservative activist with a known history of controversial statements post an online video confronting comedian/actor Chris Rock. Claiming he wanted to get a picture, the activist corners the comedian with questions about the Tea Party. Chris Rock made comments that stated the Tea Party is reactionary racism towards the first Black president. Mattera is a protege of conservative agitator Michelle Malkin.

Chris Rock violently attacked a journalist's camera in January -- after the guy tried to trap Rock with a question about the comedian's controversial stance on the Tea Party -- and the intense footage has just surfaced.

In case you didn't know -- Rock went OFF on the TP last year in an Esquire interview, claiming, "When I see the Tea Party and all this stuff, it actually feels like racism’s almost over. Because this is the last -- this is the act up before the sleep. They’re going crazy. They’re insane."








So conservative writer Jason Mattera decided to question Rock about his opinion at the Sundance Film Festival in January -- blindsiding Rock with a TP question ... asking, "When you said the Tea Party was insane and racist ..."

But before he could finish his question, Rock tried to walk away. When he discovered his path was blocked by other people, Rock turned around and grabbed Mattera's camera and wrestled it to the ground.


A rep for Chris says the actor's attorney is looking into the video.

Rush Limbaugh is losing over 100 sponsors since his attack against Sandra Fluke, many are calling for a boycott on him and other conservative agitators.  Since then many conservative agitators are trying blame comedians (that's right comedians) for the exodus of advertising being pulled from Rush Limbaugh's program., conservatives are trying to "hypocrisy" by entertainers supportive of President Barack Obama.

Bill Maher, Chris Rock and David Letterman aren't as influential to the Democratic Party. They are paid entertainers who make a living on telling comedy that is raunchy, explicit and damn funny!

Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Grover Norquist, Fox News and NRA carry strong influence to the Republican Party and its allies in the conservative movement. They control the outcomes of elections and they are influences to how Republicans govern.

Update: Mattera was trying to ambush U2 frontman and activist Bono, and ended up duped by an imposter.

The Republican Culture War.

I've been on a brief hiatus for some time. I been observing the ongoing culture wars within the Republican Party for some time now. I decided to write an honest opinion on the matter.

The 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections is a challenge for incumbent Barack Obama. Five years ago, then senator from Illinois was under fire for what was perceived as a constant whisper campaign by conservatives the moment he announced he would run for the President of The United States.

As he gears up for a reelection against the potential Republican nominee, I want to go back to the many things the Republican Party tired in sabotaging Barack Obama. The gloves been off, and now we'll see the very same characters go after President Barack Obama. They want to deny him a reelection.

1. The Insight Magazine online publication making the claim that Barack Obama attended a madrassa in Indonesia when he was young. Fox News commentators John Gibson, Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade took aim at Barack Obama by claiming that then senator Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign were responsible for the claim. The Barack Obama campaign responds back and calls the notion false. The campaign begins the boycott of Fox News.

2. The issue with his record as then state senator from Illinois. A pro-life activist Jill Stanek makes the claim that she knew Barack Obama when he was then a state senator, and made the claim that Obama was not concerned with a legislative bill that would prevent late term abortions. The talking point from conservatives such as Sean Hannity, and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich were that "[Barack Obama] is killing babies by supporting infanticide!" This issue would also come to light when Randall Terry, Alan Keyes and Jill Stanek were protesting President Barack Obama attending University of Norte Dame for a commencement.

3. A prominent Chicago pastor became the lightening rod for Barack Obama. Jeremiah Wright, a former pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago was the subject of various attacks from conservatives over his sermons in which it criticized the United States role in the world. Wright, a former U.S. military doctor was critical of issues by then President George W. Bush and Republicans, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign taking using "racial politics" to scare white voters and the media for misquoting his sermons. Fox News, in particular Sean Hannity was invested in the controversy. Hannity had interviewed Wright during a segment of his show and they got into a heated debate over Barack Obama's association with the church. This issue continues to be a thing that most conservatives refuse to let go. Jeremiah Wright has long left the church and is doing speaking tours at colleges and theological seminaries. Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Andrew Breitbart, and particularly Fox News continue to rehash this issue up once again and the 2012 Republican candidates promise that this issue will be mentioned again.

4. If you weren't aware of the whisper campaign about being Muslim, you're way out the loop. The never-ending notion that President Barack Obama is a closet Islamist radical was mentioned by conservatives. A conservative activist by the name of Andy Martin claims responsibility for the rumors. This controversy has been active during the 2004 U.S. Senate campaign in which Barack Obama handily defeated perennial candidate Alan Keyes. During the campaign, the supporters of John McCain's presidential campaign were making references to claims of his name. Cincinnati talk radio host, Bill Cunningham went onstage and made acknowledgement of "Barack Hussein Obama" in attempt to rile up voters still concerned with the fact his name is somehow tied to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The madrassa story from earlier was a driving force to making conservatives suspect the presidential candidate was somehow a Muslim who plots on destroying the United States from within. As President Barack Obama, the claims of being a Muslim will never go away. The very fact that he attended the Trinity United Church of Christ is not enough to stop that rumor. When President Barack Obama went to Egypt to speak to the Islamic nation, that flared up more rumors of him being a secret Muslim. Recently, U.S. marines created a controversy by burning the Islamic Q'uran in Afghanistan. The president reached out to the leader of Afghanistan and apologized for the actions. U.S. presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich alongside former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin went on the offense claiming that President Obama has more sympathy for the "Muslims" than those who killed U.S. soldiers.

5. The alleged affairs by Barack Obama. From a conspiracy kook to a former campaign adviser, the Republicans were hoping that another "Monica Lewinsky" scandal to fall upon Barack Obama. The first one, Larry Sinclair. This man who has been known in the circles as a conspiracy kook was flaring up the rumor that Barack Obama had a homosexual affair with him while on a cocaine binge. Sinclair claims that the president is paying huge sums to prevent the stories from ever hitting the newspapers. Vera Baker, a former campaign supporter and adviser was allegedly involved in a romantic affair with then candidate Barack Obama during the 2008 U.S. presidential elections. Although she denied it, The Drudge Report and many conservatives were hoping that "smoking gun" is still loaded and hoping this issue will become a 2012 October Surprise.


6. The never-ending birth certificate issue. What was started by a vexatious litigant named Andy Martin, the rumors of President Barack Obama's birthplace continue to be a hot issue within the conservative circles. Talk radio host such as InfoWars founder Alex Jones, conservative talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cunningham, Lou Dobbs, Fox News commentators such as Andrew Napolitano, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity were invested in the birth certificate. Ongoing activist Orly Taitz, WorldNetDaily contributors Joseph Farrah, Dr. Jerome Corsi, and controversial Black preacher James David Manning invested the controversy. Many conservatives continue to deny the fact that Barack Obama is indeed an American citizen. In 2007, the whisper campaigns of him being a Kenyan came forth after the Washington Times, WorldNetDaily and The Drudge Report took upon "facts" from members of his estranged father's family. Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961, and lived with his mother for a portion of his time growing up. During that time, he traveled from Hawaii, to Indonesia, back to Hawaii and then to the mainland. Before he became a U.S. senator, the rumors of his birthplace were mention but not to the degree as it is today. Barack Obama during the campaign released a short-form birth certificate stating his place of birth. That didn't satisfy conservatives. Orly Taitz leads the way in trying to bring lawsuits in federal court stating that she can prove Barack Obama is ineligible to be president. The conflict gotten worse. Donald Trump, a media mogul and potential candidate for president threw his weight into the debate. After a few moments of polling well against Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Chris Christie in a Republican match up against President Barack Obama, Trump decided to push the issue further by demanding the long form birth certificate. In April 2011, President Barack Obama presented the long form birth certificate. This issue hasn't went away. Taitz continues to push forth her lawsuits against President Obama and more conservatives are still unsure whether the president is an American citizen.

7. The guilt by association theme once again. With a former anti-war radical coming to light, Barack Obama once again has to defend himself from a person he knew only as a neighbor down the block. Bill Ayers, a retired professor at The University of Illinois branch Chicago became another issues conservatives pounced on. In the late 1960s at the peak of Civil Rights movement and anti-Vietnam protests, Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, an anti-war activist group that did domestic terrorism against political establishments. Sean Hannity once again rode this controversy all the way to the election. When former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin came forth during the election, her quote "palling around with terrorists", conservatives managed to sway opinion against the professor and of course Barack Obama. Ambushing Bill Ayers and his family with cameras, conservatives continue to demand Ayers come clean about his relationship with Barack Obama. Recently the issue was rehashed again after conservative agitators Andrew Breitbart and Tucker Carlson went on Sean Hannity's show claiming they've met and dine with the former professor. They believe that he was responsible for writing two of the president's successful books. The issue will not die and expect this continue throughout the election.

8. The culture war is brewing again. After the 2008 U.S. elections, one thing became clear, Republicans wanted to stick anything to Barack Obama. A woman named Peggy Joseph went on camera stating that Barack Obama was going to help her with her bills and make things alright. Conservative went into uproar. Two New Black Panthers were standing at a polling station in Black neighborhood. One holding a baton, and threatening the conservative videographers. They post it online, and it became a conservative outrage. In 2009, Henry "Skip" Gates was arrested at his home by police officer Robert Crowley. The president went forth to acknowledge the issue as a problem due to the unprecedented profiling of Black and Hispanic/Latino males being pulled over. Conservatives went into an uproar. The president goes on Jay Leno and makes a off-color joke that makes fun of his disabilities in certain sports, conservatives went into an uproar claiming the president doesn't respect those with special needs. The president throws the ceremonial baseball pitch, conservatives mock his pitching stance. The president wanted a basketball court added to the White House, conservatives went into an uproar. The president delivers a speech to the elementary and high school students, a traditional theme among previous presidents. Conservatives went forth to pulling their children out of school and boycotting the president's speech. Conservatives went forth to attacking the president, First Lady Michelle Obama and their children for taking vacations. The conservatives blamed the president for overreaching during two terrible hurricanes, the Gulf Oil spill in which BP was responsible, and of course, the continuous blame for the economy. A thing he's inherited since he took office. When the president won a Nobel Peace Price in 2009, conservative went into an uproar. When the president tried to get the Summer Olympics to Chicago and it was rejected, conservative cheered. Glenn Beck, claimed the president has a deep seated hatred for white people. Sarah Palin claimed that President Obama's "Winning The Future" was a "WTF" plan. Rush Limbaugh declared that he "hopes he failed". Bill O'Reilly and Bret Brier interrupts the president during an interview. Fox network omits the president's addresses to the nation for television programs such as Glee and American Idol. The saving of civilians overseas from Somali pirates, the killing of al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki, conservatives give little to no credit for the president effective actions. The constant impatience of the public has waned on his popular and conservatives are relishing in defeating the president.

9. The beginnings of the Tea Party movement. In 2008, the bitter fight between Democratic presidential primaries between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They managed to take this fight all the way to June 2008 and during that time, a lot of disgruntled Hillary-supporters vowed they'll ditch the Democratic nominee and vote for John McCain the Republican nominee for president. Some have forgotten about the women who were involved in the grassroots movements, such as People United Means Actions (PUMAs), Clintons 4 McCain and Hillbuzz. It's leaders include: Darragh Murphy, Harriet Christian, Christi Adkins and Debra Bartoshevich, former Democrats who claimed that Barack Obama is not worthy of the leading the United States. Most in the media dismissed them as "plants" for the Republican Party, ridiculed them for playing the gender and race card and pretty much wiped them out of the mainstream press.

In November 2008, when Barack Obama secured enough electoral votes to be declared the winner, Republicans look upon this as a disaster and vowed revenge. Most conservatives believe that Barack Obama was given a easy ride based on his race. The conservative bemoan about the media's focus on a historical milestone of nominating an African American for president. They blame Barack Obama for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and the Troubled Assets Relief Program. Although President Obama carried upon the actions of these laws, the signature of the final acts were by President George W. Bush. Republicans were upset upon President Obama signing of American Investment Job and Recovery Act in which is stimulate growth in the economy and helped middle class families with a tax cut.

These notions were rejected by conservatives. In February 2009, spurred by outrage at what conservatives claim is "government overreach", the Tea Party was born. What started as a mild protest composed of the cult followers of Republican Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, became the hub for people such as Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Joe The Plumber and those disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters. The disgruntled voters vowed that he will only serve out one term and they will rebound with a suitable president capable of "taking their country back!" They've sought motivation in Glenn Beck, Joe The Plumber, Andrew Breitbart, Dick Armey and even comedian Victoria Jackson.

The process of the Tea Party movement was spurn with disrespect upon the President Obama by Joe Wilson, Republican congressman from South Carolina with "You Lie!" upon the Joint Session of Congress speech. It gave rise to presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, congresswoman from Minnesota. It spurred angry town halls in which Democratic lawmakers were challenged on issues such as the health care reform. It motivated political minded conservatives of Black, Hispanic/Latino and Asian race to enter into politics. Black Republicans such Allen West of Florida, Tim Scott of South Carolina were elected on the motivation of the Tea Party. It help secure the first Latina Susana Martinez woman to be governor of New Mexico.It helped two Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Nikki Haley of South Carolina to become the first of Indian/Asian decent to be governors of two southern states. The Tea Party managed to elect Senators Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky. The Tea Party help the Republicans retake the House of Representatives and state/territorial governorships.

Now as the 2012 elections gear up, these elements are still brewing. The Republicans are currently in disarray over the perceive notion that the field of Republican candidates are weak. The Tea Party is really upset with not only President Barack Obama but the Republican leaders as well. The dubbed the moderates and the politically established as RINOs (Republican(s) in Name Only). They are feuding within the party over who's capable of being a conservative leader capable of beating the president. So far, it's still long road ahead with the field and they hope that it can bring them together. In spite of the disarray, Republicans are rushing legislation such as voter identification to prevent Blacks, Hispanic/Latinos, the poor and young voters, a key demographic to Barack Obama from voting. The Republicans are planning to run campaigns to distract voters with culture war issues such as eliminating subsides for lower and middle class, rolling back regulations on the environment, and control a woman's right for birth control.

10. Once again, I stress that the Republican Party and its allies in the conservative movement are wrapping their asses around the American flag in preparedness of a culture war. The culture war has an enemy. The middle class, the working class, the lower class, minorities, [independent women and single mother's] rights, GLBT, those who practice in Islam, and the many supporters of President Barack Obama are considered enemies of the state. The Republicans passed legislation that catered to extremists. Since he took office, the race issue came forth after many Republicans were force to apologize for sending racist and downright offensive emails to their friends. Colorado Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn called President Barack Obama a tar baby. He later apologized. Arizona Republican Congressman Trent Franks questioned his birth certificate, and called him an enemy of humanity. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky the Republican minority leader, stated his goal was to deny President Barack Obama a second term. Black conservatives play upon the narratives that President Obama is not an effective leader to the Black community. Glenn Beck targeting his former adviser Van Jones. Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe went after a community organization known as ACORN. They successful put ACORN out of business. The Republicans passed legislation to cut funding to NPR and Planned Parenthood. Republicans held public sessions to make the case against the Muslim community. The Republicans called for the firing of Attorney General Eric Holder for the mishandling of firearms in which it lead to the killing of a U.S. border agent. Holder, is the first Black attorney general. In states where Republicans were in control, some legislators passed laws that go against the federal government. State Republicans are passing legislation that targets illegal immigrants overstepping the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Concealed carry firearms in public places were passed in states. Republicans passed legislation to prevent abortions and outlaw birth control. Voter identification laws were passed to prevent lower incomes and minorities from voting. All these issues are certainly out there and people are not happy about the results.

Republicans are very unpopular right now. They spent a majority of the 112th Congress on culture war issues. The government overreach has made voters in swing states turn sour on the Republicans. Ohio governor John Kasich was handed a defeat after he and Ohio Republicans passed legislation that prevented public sector unions from collective bargaining. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and Republican state senators are facing a recall election after the passage of a bill that also stripped collective bargaining from public sector unions. Florida governor Rick Scott is under fire for his signing of mandatory drug testing for food stamp and welfare recipients and the rejection of a commutator rail service in the state. Arizona governor Jan Brewer, signed legislation that overstepped the federal government's role in handling illegal immigration. The law is being challenged in court.

The Republican Party have created so many controversies, President Barack Obama's allies can't stop them all at once. My goal is simple. I will waste no time trying to help this man win reelection. I will no longer endorse the notion the Republicans are capable of fixing the economic turmoils we all are facing as Americans. I will continue to stand independent of the situation and offer my honest opinion of issues that matter.

I share with you links to websites that outline the ongoing culture wars within the Republican Party.

http://addictinginfo.org/
http://republicancivilwar.com/
http://motherjones.com/

Deja Vu

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Whitney Houston RIP

I grew up listening to Whitney Houston’s music, her modeling career, and her movie career. She has accomplished more in her lifetime than most and I hope people remember her accomplishments in the movie, modeling, and music industry, not her personal life.
May Whitney Houston rests in peace!

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Whitney Houston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Whitney Houston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963–February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, producer and model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records,[3] and her list of awards include 2 Emmy Awards, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards as of 2010. Houston was also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums and singles worldwide.[4][5]

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