If I worked my tail off to get into Notre Dame, my parents spent their fortune sending me there and I was about to graduate, I would find it a slap-in-the-face to have Barack Hussein Obama speak at my commencement.  This man not only promotes killing babies through abortion, he also is a media-grabbing whore that has no reason to be at Notre Dame other than to promote is perverted ideas of socialism.

Whoever gave the green-light to have Obama speak at the commencement is totally disregarding everyone that can see through Obama's phony image.

Would U.C. Berkeley let George Bush speak at their college without protest?  I highly doubt that.   

Anybody else detecting a trend here at NB in the last few days?

"Shystertwit angling to be the next Olbermann."

He seems to infer that the president shouldn’t talk to a Catholic university because of quote, ‘values.’ -Rick Sanchez

First of all, Rick, it should be he seems to imply, not infer.

And there are certainly plenty of non-Catholics in Washington who are constantly telling the Pope what he should do....so the fact that he is not a Catholic yet is  not a valid argument .  An opinion is an opinion.  If you and David were restricted from voicing an opinion  on any number of things that don't actually involve or affect you, you would be off the air, as would most of your buddies in the MSM.

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

I should probably wait for another 'tea party' related post to make this comment, but I'm just too curious for feedback. So what do you think of THIS idea...? (warning: it's LONG)

An effective way to focus the 'tea party' protests - or howling at the moon?

The tea parties being hosted across the country in various locations are a good thing. They are being done because of Obama and his administration's policies of reckless taxing and spending while driving America towards communist socialism. It shows that many people are angry over Obama's wrong-headed policies of 'spreading the wealth' into the hands of illegal aliens and giving more rights to Islamic terrorists than to American citizens.

The thing is, it's not enough. As we have seen already, despite the fact that literally thousands of poeple are attending these tea parties, the media is totally ignoring them. Nearly every newspaper, magazine and TV network is turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the growing anger and unrest against this communist president and his cabal of anti-white religious bigots, 'unrepentant' terrorists, crooks, tax cheats and swindlers.

So I humbly suggets it's time to take the Tea Party to the next level. Here's my idea: Accept private donations to a fund in order to buy enough tea to fill a dump truck. And then: stage a march in Washington D.C. in which the culminating event is that the entire load of tea is dumped into the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

The reasons this would be more effective are:

1) The smaller parties are too easy for the media to ignore. The media has already proved it can blow up a tiny anti-war protest into a national frenzy, while burying larger protests held for social causes they disagree with. They're spin doctors, and they spin the smaller tea parties right off the front page.

2) The tea used in the smaller parties doesn't 'inconvenience' anyone in Washington. Until something is done that gets 'in the way' of those bloated gas-bags in Congress and befouls (in their minds) their comfortable little gated community, they won't listen, or care, or act. But filling the entire reflecting pool would force them to pay time, and money, and attention to the rage and anger of the protest.

3) The tea used in smaller parties didn't 'affect' the bodies of water into which they were thrown. But a dump truck of tea poured into the reflecting pool in Washington will turn the whole thing brown and take them days to clean up. If we're lucky, they'll do their normal, incompetent job of 'debating' how to clean it and it will be left rotting in the reflecting pool for weeks until it starts to smell bad - just like Congress itself, and the White House - rancid and putrid and corrupt.

It may not take all that much to get enough tea to fill an industrial-sized dump truck. Nearly half the country did NOT vote for Obama. If everyone in the country (who isn't in the media) donated a couple of tea bags, we'd soon have enough for at least a dozen cubic yards. Then it would just be a matter of renting a dump truck, driving it up to the reflecting pool and making HISTORY.

Potential Problems:
I'm sure Obama, his ACORN thugs, the Democrat Congress and Democrat House of Representatives would do everything in thier power to stop such a thing from happening - because it would be effective. Plus, doing this would involve some sacrifice beyond just the cost and price of the tea, and the cost of renting the dump truck.

1) It's probably a misdemeanor at least. Dumping a whole load of tea into the reflecting pool would 'damage' it. They'd need to hire crews to filter out the tea, change the water and probably fix any pumps and equipment which are clogged as a result of the tea insertion. Given Obama's thug-like demeanor and the tyrannical hatred of the Democrats in general, the person who actually drove the truck and dumped the tea would most likely be arrested - along with anyone who dared to host the event. They'd probably also arrest and imprison anyone who attended the protest to boot.

2) Media retaliation: The media are slaves to Obama. Anyone who makes Obama look bad will be branded an enemy of the state and treated accordingly. Chris 'I've-got-thrills-in-my-pants' Matthews of MSNBC declared to the world that it was 'his job' to make Obama look good - making him a confessed hireling of his socialist president. Almost every TV network, entertainment magazine, newspaper and news magazine are of the same mind-set. The reflecting pool Tea Party would be an event that they could not ignore. So they would do their usual 'Plan B' and attempt to destroy the lives of the ones who organized it. Using their typical methods of propaganda, intimidation and threats, they would sully the reputations and careers of anyone involved in the Tea Party to avenge the 'attack' against their god, Barack Obama. They would gin up angry mobs to attack the protest, perhaps violently, and hound participants for months after the event. The media would want revenge against the Tea Party - they would want blood. And they would not rest until they had several bodies to lay credit to.

3) Government opression: Obama has already proved through ACORN that he has no qualms about using intimidation, mob tactics, bullying and threats to protect himself and attack his enemies. He would also (perhaps not publically but surely behind the scenes) abuse the power of his office and use government forces to harass, bully and hound such a protest. He might take names, and use punitive taxation on the protestors, just as he did against AIG. He would also probably revoke drivers licenses, and use activist judges to bring trumped-up charges, and otherwise 'punish' those who dared to besmirch his god-like presidency. He has the media, Congress and the House on his side. He is a small-minded man. A bully at heart, cold-hearted, cruel and sadistic. He is a tyrant - and if the Tea Party is pulled off, he would use all the powers of a tyrant to squash the offenders.

Would it be worth it? I think so. Obama, Congress, the House of Representatives, the Judiciary, they have all forsaken their stewardships. They are recklessly engaged in spending programs that have already bankrupted the country and put us on the path to a depression, hyper-inflation, massive unemployment, energy shortages, food shortages and future terrorist attacks. And they're smiling about it, throwing lavish parties in Washington and rolling in the money they've stolen from honest taxpayers. In the case of Obama, he's chucking and laughing about the havoc he has created while appearing on "60 Minutes", glorying in the misery and destruction he has wrought.

It's going to take a sharp whack on their metaphorical noses with a yardstick to get their attention. Only then, once their eyes are crying in pain and thier faces are red and stinging from the blow, will they wake up and realize that they are a hair's breadth away from having angry mobs storming outside their OWN offices with pitchforks, torches and lynch ropes. The Reflecting Pool Tea Party would be a massive first step in the right direction....

"Yep, this thing that we started right here on this little show is really catching on."

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I had NO IDEA Rick Sanchez and his show "started" Twitter, especially with his audience of 3 or 4.  

Keep the posts on Shuster and Sanchez coming though.  They're always an afterthought for me since they actually rate so low on ratings they don't make any ratings lists.  Was reading Shuster's Twitter page one early a.m. - felt sympathy for him because it relys heavily on "Please Please PLEASE watch my show!"  If I remember correctly an idea to maybe give out balloons or t-shirts was floated by Shuster (IF you watch!)

Separated at birth with David Shuster:

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After all, its CEO and president, David Brock, is an admitted liar. Even his fellow leftists don't believe Brock.

 "When incurable liberals like Todd Gitlin and Eric Alterman begin using the name Whittaker Chambers as a term of approbation, we are entitled to say that there has been what the Germans call a Tendenzwende, or shift in the zeitgeist. The odd thing is that they have both chosen to compare Chambers’s Witness, a serious and dramatic memoir by any standards, to a flimsy and self-worshiping book titled Blinded by the Right, by David Brock. Meyer Schapiro, one of the moral heroes of the democratic left, once said that Whittaker Chambers was incapable of telling a lie. That might well be phrasing it too strongly, but I have now been provoked by curiosity into reading Brock, and I would say without any hesitation that he is incapable of recognizing the truth, let alone of telling it." - Christopher Hitchens

“I think the problem is that once David Brock admits he knowingly wrote lies, it’s hard to figure out when to believe him, essentially….” - Jill Abramson

“I do not offer Brock absolution. The man who made a best seller out of a defamatory rant now wants to make a best seller out of repentance. What’s his next gig, ‘My Life as an Opportunist’? If his old allies accuse him of lying about lying, he deserves that. He did too much damage.” - Ellen Goodman