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Tony On Breitbart.com; Desperate Newsweek Embarrasses President, Lies To America

May 14, 2012 blog, Tony Katz No comments

Here is Tony’s latest article on Breitbart.com. Newsweek came out with a cover that declared President Obama the “First Gay President.” Was the magazine trying to disparage the President, or simply lie to the American people?:

DESPERATE NEWSWEEK EMBARRASSES PRESIDENT, LIES TO AMERICA

Newsweek has provided a magazine cover that leaves one speechless. Not because of its amazing photography, nor for its deep intellectual insight. But rather because, in its attempt to praise President Obama for his coming out in favor of gay marriage, Newsweek has managed potentially to insult the President, to create campaign fodder that will haunt him until Election Day, and to deceive Americans into thinking the President has done something extraordinary.

Last week, under serious stress from high-level donors and Vice President Biden’s own “misstep” on Meet The Press, Obama came out in an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts in favor of gay marriage:

…at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for
me personally it is important for me to go ahead
and affirm that I think same sex couples should be
able to get married.

The mainstream media and other doting sycophants exploded in fawning delight. They declared Obama brave. Roberts, discussing the interview with contraception-lover George Stephanopolous, said she was getting “chills” just thinking about it. On MSNBC’s Martin Bashir program, leftist pundit Krystal Ball referred to the announcement as “historic.”

Yet, as Bruce Carroll of GayPatriot.net noted on Daily Caller, what’s so historic about something that former Vice President Dick Cheney did back in 2009, which caused New York Magazine to call him a “Gay-Marriage Pioneer?” (Come to think of it, what’s so brave about being backed in to a position by your Vice President? A position that you were going to announce just before the Democratic National Convention? Also, what is so historic about a man vocalizing an opinion he held in 1996, only to put it–and gays–in the closet so he could become a Senator and then President, pulling those same gays out of the closet when it became politically expedient?) As Carroll noted:

After the initial glow, however, those of us who look at life more critically and through the prism of reality like, for example, the law and the U.S. Constitution, found Obama’s announcement to be anything but historic. All he did was state his personal perspective on a social matter. Did he say he was going to ask Congress to repeal the “Defense of Marriage Act” signed by President Clinton? Nope. Did he urge all 50 governors to move toward same-sex marriage recognition in their state? Nope. Did he say he would back efforts for a gay marriage plank in the DNC platform at the Democratic Convention. Nope.

Once again, Obama is all bluster, no bite. (I would have said, “All bark, no bite.” but I didn’t want to make the man hungry.) The cover is a two-fer, as it was designed not only to “praise” the President and lie to passers by, but also to take on the competition. AfterTIME magazine came out with its now-infamous breast feeding cover, Newsweek editor Tina Brown declared, “Let the games begin!” But this isn’t a game. This isn’t even rational. Is Newsweek calling Obama gay? Exactly what about supporting gay marriage makes one gay? Wouldn’t he still, by definition, have to have a sexual proclivity towards men? At the very least, wouldn’t Obama, like Carroll argues, have to do something more than make an awkward, calculated pronouncement? Newsweek is perfectly willing to label elected officials as needed in order to sell magazines. What covers are next in the Brown arsenal? The First Jewish President–next to a picture of Louis Farrakkhan, with a blue and white halo surrounding the yarmulke on his head?

The article within Newsweek is written by Andrew Sullivan who, for years, has been parading around as a conservative, in the same way David Frum parades around as a conservative…and Meghan McCain…and Sen. Lindsay Graham. From excerpts taken from the Daily Mail, Sullivan writes:

‘When you step back a little and assess the record of Obama on gay rights, you see, in fact, that this was not an aberration. It was an inevitable culmination of three years of work,’ Mr Sullivan said in a statement about the article. ‘He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family,’ he wrote, describing the similarities between Mr Obama and the gay community.

True, Obama repealed ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” True, he instructed the Justice Department not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act. However, the only “inevitable culmination” over the past three years is that President Obama is a cold, calculating politician who will do anything necessary to help his re-elect, including pretending to give a damn about gay America.

Sullivan’s commentary is engaging a therapy session with America about his own coming out. I can only imagine doing so is difficult for many, but it’s not the basis for calling the President gay. A fantastic cover will sell magazines. But Newsweek hasn’t sold magazines here, they’ve taken labeling to a whole new level. Here’s a more accurate cover: Newsweek lied. Obama isn’t brave. Gay America got nothing except more lip service.

And there are 175 days until Election Day.

Tony Katz on Breitbart.com – Radio Lefty Advises On Limbaugh: Go After Program Directors

March 18, 2012 blog One comment

Here is Tony’s latest article on Breitbart.com. Leftists of all stripes are pushing an advertiser war against radio host Rush Limbaugh. Another host, Michael Smerconish, is advising Leftists to leave the advertisers alone and go after the program directors. You know, “Occupy” style:

Radio Lefty Advises On Limbaugh: Go After Program Directors

The words of radio giant Rush Limbaugh regarding contraceptive dilettante Sandra Fluke, and his subsequent apology for calling her a derogatory name, have created an all out frenzy from Leftist-Progressives who call for him to be thrown off the air. Close to 100 advertisers, national and local, have left his program. However, one radio host is advising Leftists to get after the Program Directors, not the advertisers.

Philadelphia based radio host Michael Smerconish penned an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer that tells readers that the advertiser boycott on Limbaugh will not have the effect they desire. They must focus on the program directors. Said another way, they must “pick the target:”

Though the advertising boycott of Rush Limbaugh is significant for its size and scope, it will ultimately prove ineffectual in dislodging him from his commanding perch above the talk-radio world. That kind of movement would require a different type of acquiescence, namely on the part of program directors, not advertisers

Smerconish believes that there is,”…a strong case to be made for such a course correction (removing Limbaugh)” and that, “… it would be healthy for the country should the backlash against Limbaugh take hold.” Further, he blames Limbaugh for the current political hostility across America.

He talks about Limbaugh’s effect on Congress [emphasis mine]:

The National Journal documented in 2010 that the Senate was more divided than at any point in the three decades since it has been evaluating legislators’ key votes…. And, no, the climate has not always been like this. According to the Journal, in the early 1980s, with Ronald Reagan as president, 60 percent of the Senate was somewhere in the middle.

So Congress wasn’t always like this, and neither was talk radio. Coincidence? I think not.

The connection supposedly being made here is before Limbaugh was syndicated in 1988, radio was a super-happy-fun place and everyone loved and respected each other:

Philadelphia was the last major market to welcome Limbaugh when he came aboard at WWDB-FM (96.5) in 1992. The station was then home to “Evil” Irv Homer, a libertarian before Ron Paul made it fashionable; Dominick Quinn, a conservative known more for his expansive vocabulary than his ideology; Frank Ford, an acerbic liberal; and Bernie Herman, whose moniker was the now seemingly anachronistic “gentleman of broadcasting.” Personality was king, and sustaining a conversation was more important than talking points.

Then, Limbaugh showed up [emphasis mine]:

Limbaugh’s success on radio led to polarizing imitations on cable TV. Politicians imitated what they saw and heard, and took the nation down with them.

Yes, Smerconish is pointing to Limbaugh as the reason for the lack of civility. It was Limbaugh that made President Obama say Republicans think the earth is flat. It’s Limbaugh that made Ed Schultz call Laura Ingraham a “slut,” made Maher call Sarah Palin a “c*nt,” made former Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) say that Republicans want old people to die, made The Agenda Project create commercials showing a Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) look-alike pushing “grandma” off a cliff. It was Limbaugh that made Obama make fun of the tea party, Limbaugh that made Keith Olbermann and Janeane Garofalo call everyone in the tea party “racists,” Limbaugh that made Obama say the Cambridge police acted “stupidly.”

Smerconish wasn’t done. He also took to task all the big conservative hosts [emphasis mine]:

Still, the hosts identified (referring to Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity) constitute the starting rotation at many talk stations across the country. Their programs, strung together, amount to 15 or more straight hours of daily kicking the crap out of President Obama (whether he deserves it or not). The only diversity they offer is in their voice inflections.

And that is the crux of Smerconish’s argument; Radio doesn’t offer enough diversity! And since, as an “independent?” radio host, he can’t overtly support the Fairness Doctrine, he instead supports the thug mentality of Occupy Wall Street. Get the Programming Directors! Perhaps the Leftists should organize, and protest at the stations? Or, find out where the PD’s live, and protest at their houses? Or, perhaps, protest at their houses when they aren’t there, scaring the hell out of the children inside!

Smerconish warns that “there are no guarantees those who determine content (PD’s) will stray from their current business model.” He’s right. Why? Stations like to make money. And while you and I may not understand or like a station’s line up, if those hosts draw sponsors, then those hosts will be around for a long time. It’s called the Free Market; Smerconish, and the Left-Leaning compatriots he is advising are opposed to it. Limbaugh lost sponsors, and many of them have crawled back (some even rejected!) because Limbaugh draws an audience. PD’s want to make money for their respective stations, but how important is that compared to getting a “visit” from an unruly mob?

At one moment, Smerconish tries to explain the necessity of the independent host:

Meanwhile, the nation seems poised for something more multidimensional. Jon Stewart nailed it when, at the Rally to Restore Sanity he cohosted with Steven Colbert in 2010, he proclaimed:

“Most Americans don’t live their lives just as Democrats or Republicans, liberals or conservatives.”

Jon Stewart is not an independent, he is a Liberal, and so is Smerconish. He is advocating for pressuring the bosses to fire Limbaugh, to change the programming on their station (one wonders with furrowed brow who they could get to replace him. Who I say?!) He is promoting Alinsky’s Rule #13 (or #12, depending on your source,) and stating that the only effective course for his fellow Leftists is, once again, a “personal” attack.

The person who values free speech recognizes that Evelyn Beatrice Hall was right when she wrote in the biography of Voltaire, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” As a man building a radio career, I couldn’t agree more. Not so for Michael Smerconish. He will defend your right to say it until he can threaten your boss and take your job.

Attacking Andrew Breitbart through his wife

March 9, 2012 blog, Tony Katz 11 comments

Many people have taken a sickening amount of glee in the death of Andrew Breitbart. Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi said he was glad he was dead. The same words were echoed by radio host John Sylvester in Wisconsin and liberal talker Mike Malloy. Numerous tweets have documented the joy in the death of the journalist/blogger/truth seeker. But nothing compares to the attack on Breitbart’s widow, Susie Breitbart.

A fake Twitter account has been created under the name “SusieBreitbart.” The account clearly mentions that it is a fake account, and then proceeds to defame Andrew and Susie with an incredibly grotesque commentary. Among the comments put up by the anonymous source:

I wish #Kony would get all up in this pussy. God I love black cock.

Kony refers to Joseph Kony, the subject of this viral video describing the atrocities he has committed in Africa, including raping and kidnapping children.

@michellemalkin why u so cross eyed?

A response to blogger and journalist Michelle Malkin, whose parents are Filipino.

In addition to the disgusting nature of the comments, there is a remarkable undercurrent of racism:

#RIPAndrew ever since he died I have sucked 18 black dicks. Okay, I think 3 of them might have been puerto ricans.

Just fucked our gardner. You now call me Susie Beaner.#RIPAndrew

Getting #blackdick tonight!! #RIPAndrew

The racism apparent is in trying to evoke feelings of disgust based on the idea that Susie Breitbart would cavort with someone who was black. As commentator AlfonZo Rachel noted on Facebook:

Ahhhh yes. The true colors of liberal bigotry. What’s the best way to demean a person? To accuse them of being intimately involved with a black person. It’s a projection of what they find unacceptable. Susie Still remains a class act amidst liberal trolls being an ass act.

The true colors here are two-fold: The inherent racism ingrained in the perpetrator, and the depths of their depravity. When we learn who has created the account, we will add to the story.

(H/T to Gary Eaton who mentioned this account on his Facebook page)

The Tony Katz Show – Podcast – 3/8/12

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Tony Katz on Town Hall: Leftists Take Steps To Prevent You From Learning Anything

March 8, 2012 blog One comment

Here is Tony’s latest article on TownHall.com. The Breitbart organization stayed true to Andrew’s words and has begun the process of “vetting” President Obama, including releasing a video of Obama as a college student at Harvard introducing with high praise a radical professor. The Left has immediately denounced the video as racist, and the editors of Breitbart.com as “clowns.” Tony is asking; Why is the Left so intellectually uncurious?:

Vetting Obama: Leftists Take Steps To Prevent You From Learning Anything

In partial fulfillment of Andrew Breitbart’s promise to “vet” the President this time, the Breitbart.com team posted a video of President Barack Obama as a law student at Harvard. It also ran on Hannity tonight. The video shows the young Obama asking his fellow law students to “Open up your hearts and your minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell.”

Professor Derrick Bell, the object of young Obama’s adoration, was an associate of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and a committed radical. Bell was a proponent of Critical Race Theory, which views virtually all relationships through a lens of perceived race-based oppression.

As Ben Shapiro wrote on Breitbart.com about Bell:

“This is a close associate of Jeremiah Wright, a man who was quoted by Jeremiah Wright regularly. This is a man who posited that the civil rights movement was too moderate because it accepted the status quo, and believed that the entire legal and constitutional system had to be transformed in radical fashion. This is a man so extreme that, as we’ve reported, he wrote a story in 1993 in which he posited that white Americans would sell black Americans into slavery to aliens to relieve the national debt, and that Jews would go along with it.”

(That story became a video, complete with former President Ronald Reagan as the slave trading alien.)

An edited version of the video – minus the section in which Obama heaps praise on Professor Bell – was posted earlier on the BuzzFeed.com. Leftists and Obama apologists dismissed the video as inconsequential and racist. Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America tweeted:

Boehlert can’t argue with the video’s content; after all, it documents actual events. Instead, he resorts to the standard Alinsky tactic of ridiculing the messenger. He doesn’t begin to address whether Obama’s association with Bell should have been revealed before the 2008 election.

Shapiro reports what Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, a close associate to the Obama campaign, had to say about hiding the tape during the 2008 campaign: “We hid this throughout the 2008 campaign. I don’t care if they find it now.”

Isn’t watchdog Boehlert curious about why a tape would be hidden by the campaign? Exactly what does interest a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America?

The liberal website HyperVocal.com couldn’t wait to recycle the Racer script. Slade Shomer, whose column is predictably entitled ‘What’s the Right-Wing End Game of This ‘Racist Obama’ College Days Video?’ lacks even the slightest curiosity about Obama’s association with Bell and why the ’08 Obama campaign wanted it hidden. Instead, keeping with true intellectually dishonest tradition, Shomer plays the race card: (emphasis mine)

While everyone fights this out in partisan terms via Twitter and their websites, we’ll instead ask a more pragmatic question: What is the end game here? Let’s even say there’s more footage that shows Obama standing there in a shirt that reads “Kill Whitey.” Let’s say he professes his deep hatred of Caucasians and says Jeremiah Wright didn’t go far enough. What then? Hasn’t this man been President of the United States for more than three years and white people as we know them are still hangin’ around?

What was Breitbart, and now (editor-in-chief Joel) Pollak and Shapiro, trying to prove exactly? How does digging up 20-year-old video change anything? There’s only one goal here, and that’s to stoke white fear. It’s almost as if the people promoting a “damning” video and the people who want to believe it most are legitimately scared that a racist, classist Barack H. Obama will wipe white people off the map … in his second term.

Certainly we all acknowledge that class warfare is a major component of Obama’s re-election campaign strategy. It’s not scary, just dishonest and destructive. But how does the release of this video stoke white fear? The assertion is as ludicrous as it is ignorant (assuming Mr. Shomer actually believes his bizarre allegations).

Try as they might, the video is out and the conversation is being had. Just exactly what do we know about President Obama? Does this video change our minds about him leading up to Election Day? If there is one video, are there others? Who is Derrick Bell, and what do we know about him?

These are just some of the legitimate questions that Eric Boehlert and Shomer, and their fellow Leftists and Apologists, will never ask, and would prefer you didn’t either.

The Leftist White House whitewash of Solyndra

September 17, 2011 articles, blog, Tony Katz No comments

Tony Katz, host of The Tony Katz Radio Spectacular, was recently the Featured Story on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Journalism.com with his story about how the Leftist press and pundits are trying to white wash the Solyndra scandal. Here is an excerpt. For the full story, click here:

In a piece on Politico, liberal standard bearer Sally Kohn posted her response to the growing Solyndra scandal, in which the Obama White House aggressively pushed through $535 million in loans to a company that was not financially sound, nor capable of providing the product or returning the loan.

Typical of a smear (where is our AttackWatch?) Kohn states:

The Bush administration initiated loans to Solyndra – and tried to push them through before Obama was inaugurated. Since the loan went through, knowledgeable private investors – high-powered Democrats and Republicans – have invested in Solyndra as well. But Solyndra couldn’t compete with Chinese counterparts because the Chinese government subsidizes its green jobs industry 30 times more than we do in the United States, helping jumpstart the new industry.

You see the problem? As Kohn wants it positioned, the issue is not that the Obama Administration pushed through bad loans, it’s that the Chinese are way better than the United States. That, while preventing its citizens from using the Internet and jailing those who publicly disagree with the Communist government, the Chinese care more about the environment because the government takes the people’s money and gives it to government run/coordinated/controlled “green” industries.

Anyone want to guess how much CO2 and other pollutants China puts into the atmosphere? It’s a lot.

This desire to subsidize the green industry is not solely the purview of Kohn…..

Read the full story here.

Tony Katz Talks Journalism, Breitbart and Joan Walsh on PJTV

June 8, 2011 video No comments

Every week, Tony Katz hosts a show on PJTV called The Conversation with Tony Katz. This week, he was joined by Breitbart.tv editor-in-chief Larry O’Connor, BigJournalism.com contributor Meredith Dake and Mediate.com correspondent Tommy Christopher to talk about the future of journalism, and who the journalists are.

Journalism is Back!

June 7, 2011 blog, Tony Katz No comments

Here is my latest from Pajamas Media.com:

The story is not the photos. The story is the journalism — It’s back. And the MSM is finished.

As Weinergate broke and gained traction, a large majority of the MSM and leftist media stuck their heads in the sand. Joan Walsh of Salon.com savaged those who attempted to make this a story. On MSNBC, she seemed furious at Chris Matthews who — to his credit — would not let Walsh tie the reporting of Weinergate to the case involving Breitbart and Shirley Sherrod.

Others decided this is not a news story — it bores them. Former Clinton administration big-shot Paul Begala quipped to Anderson Cooper while pretending to yawn: “Wake me when we have a real sex scandal.”

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Tony Katz Radio – Wednesday, May 4th 2011

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Live from the studios of PJTV, John Nolte of Big Hollywood joins Tony to talk about the Race-ers, and how the Left continues with the racism meme. Then, PJTV’s Alexis Garcia shares Congressional reaction to the death of Bin Laden.

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Tony Katz Radio – Tuesday, February 15th 2011

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Holly is on a full burn, having read a very racist article about Herman Cain. Tony breaks down what the article means, and the coded message inside. Plus, Tony defends the 1st amendment, and reaffirms friendships.

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