Christine O’Donnell: Would Piers Morgan ask Obama about masturbation?

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Tea Partier Christine O’Donnell is questioning whether CNN’s Piers Morgan would ask male politicians if they “think masturbation is wrong” like he did with her during an interview Wednesday.

In a phone interview with The Daily Caller, the former Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Delaware said she ended her television interview with Morgan in part because his questions to her about sex took a “borderline creepy turn.”

O’Donnell suggested there is a double standard and that Morgan wouldn’t have posed the question to male political figures.

“If he was sitting there talking to Barack Obama or Joe Biden or any other male Senate candidates, talking about masturbation and all of this stuff, it would’ve been creepy,” said O’Donnell, who is doing media appearances to promote her new book, “Trouble Maker.”

Morgan, who prefaced his question Wednesday saying he doesn’t regularly ask questions like this, played the infamous clip of a much younger O’Donnell talking about the issue on MTV in the nineties and asked her if she still thinks “masturbation is wrong.”

Read More at the Daily Caller By Alex Pappas, The Daily Caller

Judicial Watch Lawsuit Uncovers New Documents: Obama Administration Bankrolls Massive Internet Propaganda Campaign to Push Obamacare

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Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it obtained documents from the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showing that the Obama White House helped coordinate a multimillion dollar taxpayer-funded campaign to use Internet search engines such as Google and Yahoo to drive Web traffic to a government Web site promoting the Affordable Health Care Act (also known as Obamacare). The expressed purpose of this campaign is to increase public support for the president’s health care overhaul among key Obama campaign demographics, specifically Hispanics, blacks, and women.

The 2,328 pages of records, obtained by Judicial Watch pursuant to a March 23, 2011, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, Judicial Watch v. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 11-608), include internal correspondence between officials at the HHS office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA), as well as communications with representatives from The Ogilvy Group, the public relations firm hired by the Obama administration to manage the Obamacare campaign. The following are highlights from the documents:

The Obama HHS launched a campaign to track Internet searches and to use online search engines such as Google and Yahoo to drive traffic to a government Web site promoting Obama’s healthcare overhaul. Using “pay-per-click” advertising tools, such as Google Adwords, HHS purposely targeted for influence people searching the term “Obamacare,” a word that has been described as “disparaging” by political agents of the president. One HHS email details: A few keyword groups continue to be top performers, and have subsequently driven most of the traffic to the campaign Web sites:

Affordable Care Act, including such terms as health care reform, government health insurance, Obamacare, and affordable care act.

Health Insurance Group, including terms as health insurance.

Health Care Group, including terms as health care.

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Christine O’Donnell Walks Off Piers Morgan Interview

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In a bizarre incident, former Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell today walked out of the taping of an interview for CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, which is set to air tonight. The tipping point was Morgan’s question about her stance on gay marriage. (By that point, he had already quizzed her on witchcraft and sex with the tension between the two visibly escalating, especially when Morgan repeatedly asked O’Donnell to address old comments about masturbation she had made in an 1990s MTV documentary special.) “You’re being a little rude,” she told him several times before asking her handlers “Are we done?” and taking off her microphone. But not before schooling Morgan on conducting interviews: “Don’t you think as a host if I say ‘This what I wanna talk about’, that’s what we should address?” O’Donnell was on the show promoting her book Troublemaker. “My first ever walk-out in 25 years of interviews,” Morgan wrote on Twitter. “I guess viewers can decide if I was ‘rude’ or not tonight.” Here is the video, judge for yourselves. UPDATE: After airing the unfinished interview on his show tonight, Morgan invited O’Donnell to return tomorrow and promised not to be rude.

Read More at Deadline.com By Nellie Andreeva, Deadline

Poll: Tea party less popular than Muslims, atheists

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Being a tea party member is no cup of tea.

According to a recent New York Times/CBS survey, tea party members are less popular than atheists, Muslims, Republicans, Democrats, and 21 other groups. The movement has lost 20 percent of its supporters and gained 40 percent more opponents, according to the poll. Another NYT/CBS poll published earlier this month revealed that the tea party’s unfavorable rating had increased 29 percent since April.

According to the Times, the tea party is catching up to the Christian Right’s low popularity. Times writers David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam present possible justifications for this, stating that the tea party’s mixing of politics and religion simply doesn’t appeal to the majority of Americans. Citing Texas Governor Rick Perry’s prayer rally and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s “lengthy prayers at campaign stops,” the story claims pro-tea party folks are becoming “increasingly out of step with most Americans, even many Republicans.”

“Yet it is precisely this infusion of religion into politics that most Americans increasingly oppose,” the authors wrote. “While over the last five years Americans have become slightly more conservative economically, they have swung even further in opposition to mingling religion and politics. It thus makes sense that the Tea Party ranks alongside the Christian Right in unpopularity.”

Read More at the Daily Caller  By Laura Donovan, The Daily Caller

Florida GOP: Bachmann’s decision to skip straw poll a ‘bad move’

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Rep. Michele Bachmann’s meteoric rise to front-runner status in the Republican presidential hunt will not take her to the Presidency 5 Straw Poll event in Florida in September. Though Bachmann will participate in a Fox News debate just days earlier, the decision to skip the Sunshine State’s straw poll has Floridians scratching their heads.

Florida-based media consultant Rick Wilson told The Daily Caller, “If you’re ready for prime-time, you’ll be at Presidency 5. If not, well, good luck with that whole regional campaign thing.”

And Brian Hughes, Communications Director for the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), flat-out called Bachmann’s decision a “bad move.”

When news broke about her decision to skip the event, there was speculation that fresh out of Ames, Iowa, the Bachmann campaign just didn’t have the resources to pull off another straw-poll event.

Hughes doesn’t buy it.

The straw poll, which takes place September 22-24 in Orlando, will poll votes from 3,500 delegates who were chosen in advance. Unlike with the Iowa event, participating in the Presidency 5 poll requires no massive logistical efforts or financial outlays.

Read More at the Daily Caller By Amanda Carey, The Daily Caller

China Examines U.S. Helicopter, Because Obama Trusts Pakistan

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Last May I wrote the Pakistanis cannot be trusted. I hate being right about Pakistan.

The Pakistani government views China as a better ally than the unstable United States under Barack Obama, and their relationship with us has deteriorated since the killing of Osama bin Laden. They were upset about not being allowed to warn the al-Qaeda leader about the planned raid on his compound as they clearly did in 1998, before the retaliatory cruise missile attacks for the U.S. embassy attacks in Africa.

During the raid that killed bin Laden, the United States lost a stealth helicopter modeled after the MH-60 Blackhawk. Its exterior was modified to reduce its radar signature, and its engines and blades were developed to reduce noise, making this platform a perfect infiltration machine. Unfortunately, during its landing the helicopter’s tail struck a fence, forcing it to crash. With no chance of carrying the ship’s remaining secrets away, explosives were used to render the wreckage components useless.

Embarrassed and angry at not being informed of the raid beforehand, the Pakistanis threatened to grant China access to the remains of the helicopter. Despite the Obama administration’s request not to do so, they did anyway. As reported by the Financial Times, an anonymous U.S. Intelligence Official said, “The U.S. now has information that Pakistan, particularly the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) gave access to the Chinese military to the downed helicopter in Abbottabad.”

The administration thought they had won a diplomatic victory when Sen. John Kerry went to Pakistan to grovel before the Pakistanis, begging to get the helicopter back. It was reported that the highly photographed tail portion was sent back, but as always, it’s difficult to believe Barack Obama about anything. There was enough left behind to sell to the highest bidder.

Read More at Floyd Reports  By Jim Emerson, Floyd Reports

Your share of the national debt is $246,000, but state debts can add another $23,000 to your tab

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Using $40,000 as an average yearly income,this means our government has eaten through more than six years of our income. If these numbers were the only debt piled on our heads it would be bad enough,unfortunately this $246,000 is only our share of the federal debt. Depending on the state you live in,your indebtedness can be much worse.

A new report from the Institute for Truth In Accounting (IFTIA) holds some disturbing news about how deep some states have fallen into the financial hole. It states that while 49 states have balanced budget requirements either in statute or in their constitution most don’t live up to either the letter or spirit of their fiscal responsibilities.

Only Vermont has no constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget and it has had a decade of balanced budgets. Nevertheless,if you are tempted to think socialism means balanced books read on.

The combined indebtedness of the states is $1 TRILLION dollars! The five worst,as identified by the IFTIA,are Connecticut,New Jersey,Illinois,Hawaii and Kentucky.

The average citizen in these states owes an additional $23,000 because of the reckless vote buying policies of legislatures and governors. At the state level all of these states have been either totally or largely run by liberal Democrats for years.

Read More at Coach is Right By Kevin “Coach” Collins, Coach is Right

Obama: Tea-party GOP blocking U.S. recovery

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A day after clashing with a tea party activist, President Obama Tuesday told crowds here that it was “a faction in Congress” that was to blame for blocking economic progress.

At a rural jobs forum, Mr. Obama ticked off a list of pending bills that he said would create jobs.

“The only thing that’s preventing us from passing the bills I just mentioned is the refusal of a faction in Congress to put country ahead of party,” the president said in a thinly veiled reference to House Republicans backed by the tea party. “That has to stop.”

At a town-hall meeting Monday night in Decorah, Iowa, Mr. Obama was confronted by Ryan Rhodes, a leader of the tea party in this state. Mr. Rhodes told the president that his calls for civility were meaningless while Democrats such as Vice President Joseph R. Biden have referred to tea party members as “terrorists.”

The president said he agreed with Mr. Rhodes that “everybody needs to try to tone down the rhetoric.”

 Read More at The Washington Times  By Dave Boyer, The Washington Times

Brace for another U.S.-Mideast war

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Turkey secretly passed a message to Damascus last week that if it does not implement major democratic reforms, NATO may attack Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, according to Egyptian security officials speaking to WND.

The Egyptian security officials said the message was coordinated with NATO members, specifically with the U.S. and European Union.

Assad has been widely accused of ordering massacres on militants and protesters engaged in an insurgency targeting his regime.

The Egyptian officials said Turkish leaders, speaking for NATO, told Assad that he has until March to implement democratization that would allow free elections as well as major constitutional reforms.

The officials said the NATO message demanded Assad halt attacks against the insurgency and begin the process of democratization immediately.

Read More at WND By Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily

Obama Versus Job Creators

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Captains of industry have begun, in uncustomary fashion, speaking up against President Barack Obama and his policies – and the chorus will likely grow louder going into next year’s presidential election, perhaps swaying independent voters. The president may dismiss the chorus as the rantings of greedy “corporate jet owners,” but he may soon see himself on a collision course with big job creators during his 2012 reelection campaign – a time when job creation and the economy well could be issues driving the electorate.

It is usually frowned upon – even looked upon as taboo – for CEOs of major U.S. companies, and especially multinational corporations, to openly criticize the president or show outright partisanship toward or against a political party. At least publicly. But recently – and, especially, within the past month – corporate leaders have begun to openly criticize administration policies as helping to depress the nation’s business climate.

In that time, three major business leaders spoke out against the Obama administration: Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot; Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants (parent of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s); and casino tycoon Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts. They contend that President Obama has strangled the economy and hamstrung job growth in the country. As Puzder told me directly, businesses in the country “are being actually prevented” from creating jobs because of the administration.

CEOs are typically careful, measured and scripted when making political remarks, but that approach is changing, likely because of the Obama administration’s constant demonization of corporate America.

During a well-publicized company conference call last month, Wynn, a self-described Democrat and supporter of fellow Nevadan Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, told listeners, “This administration is the greatest wet blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime.” He added that businesses “are frightened to death about all the new regulations,” singling out Obamacare as a major challenge for companies. Fear of the administration, he said, “makes you slow down and not invest your money.”

Read More at CA Political Review By Brian Calle, California Political Review