Jonathan Krohn Is The Political WonderKidTo complete his brief biography, Jonathan Krohn was born in Georgia and still lives there with his parents. Father Doug is a computer engineer while his mother Marla is a school teacher. He gets most of his news from republican talk show hosts and thus has no idea about what normal things people go through.

Jonathan Krohn has absolutely zero life experience to actually understand what he’s talking about. but the  republican base will eat this up. are there no adults who can garner such press, aside from Sarah Palin? / sarah palin is a joke btw.

Jonathan Krohn: I got into politics when I was eight years old. Six years now. And I got involved because I started listening to talk radio. It goes back to one event. The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don’t remember what it was on and I didn’t honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules,” “I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other republican talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics. Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years. And I started learning more and started to be able to think on my own, understanding politics on my own. I started to be able to use my mind to engage in political conversations under the conservative banner.”

the crazy ones start out early , don’t they? (more…)

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FROM http://mediamatters.org
should we even be surprised at foxnews? given the fact that they cater to a racist audience?
Fox Nation

The Fox Nation linked to an article reporting on how

“Republican lawmakers in Congress are sponsoring a bill that seeks to abolish birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents” using the headline, “GOP Targets ‘Anchor Babies.’” Several media outlets have identified the term “anchor babies” as, in the words of the Rocky Mountain News, “derogatory, even racist, because it implies that Hispanics are having children as a way to stay in the U.S.”
Several media outlets have identified term as “derogatory,” “pejorative”

Rocky Mountain News: Term “considered by many to be derogatory, even racist.” An August 2006 Rocky Mountain News article reported of children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants: “Opponents of illegal immigration call them ‘anchor babies’ - a term considered by many to be derogatory, even racist, because it implies that Hispanics are having children as a way to stay in the U.S.”

San Diego Union-Tribune, Reno Gazette-Journal: Term is “pejorative.” An April 2006 San Diego Union-Tribune article stated that an anti-immigration activist “dismissed teens marching in Los Angeles as ‘probably part of the anchor baby-boom of the late 1980s and 1990s,’ using a pejorative term for the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants.” Likewise, an October 2008 Reno Gazette-Journal article reported that “[s]ome opponents of illegal immigration call such children ‘anchor babies,’ a pejorative term that implies the child will serve as an ‘anchor’ for his or her illegal immigrant parents, preventing the parents’ deportations and acting as a pathway to citizenship for the whole family.”

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Radio host Mike Gallagher: “There should be a separate line to scrutinize anybody with the name Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed.(Note: Those are some of the most common names in the world.)

Rep. Peter King (R-NY): “100 percent of the Islamic terrorists are Muslim, and that is our main enemy today. So why we should not be profiling people because of their religion?

Terrorism pundit Steven Emerson: “Remember, there have been so many complaints about quote, profiling, by the quote, Islamic civil rights groups, that they stopped basically profiling. And that basically led to not putting this guy onto the terrorist watch list.“  see link

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Fox Business Eyeing

ox Business Network is eying CNN host Lou Dobbs, the New York Times’ Brian Stelter reports.

Stelter merely mentions the news midway through his article on the ongoing battle between the White House and Fox News:

Certainly, Fox continues to aggressively bolster its on-air talent, most recently with the hiring of John Stossel, the libertarian investigative journalist from ABC News, for its spin-off channel, Fox Business. The business channel is also keen on another administration critic, Lou Dobbs, who met for dinner with Mr. Ailes last month, according to two people with direct knowledge of the meeting.

Fox Business, as Stelter mentions, has been boosting its profile of late, most notably by simulcasting Don Imus’ radio program weekday mornings from 6-9 AM. The addition of Stossel will bring another brand-name journalist to the fledgling network.

Dobbs has drawn negative attention over his promotion of the “birthers” issue, which has caused headaches for CNN executives eager to promote their network’s nonpartisan stance and lets not forget his xenophobic views of Hispanics in the u.s.

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Yesterday, Foreign Policy Initiative co-founder Bill Kristol appeared on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, where he said that he now believes “for the first time that he will not accept General McChrystal’s recommendation in Afghanistan.” “I really worry now about the next few years to a degree and in a way that I really hadn’t before,” said Kristol. - thinkprogress

KRISTOL: People are talking about Secretary Gates leaving at the end of the year, and being replaced by Chuck Hagel

HEWITT: Ugh.

KRISTOL: Yeah, exactly, as Secretary of Defense. I think that’s quite a plausible rumor, and a very worrisome one, because he is an advocate of retreat everywhere, I think.

HEWITT: Yeah, it’s sort of neoisolationism replacing neoconservatism as the driving intellectual force behind the intellectuals on either side.

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Spanish Prime Minister's daughters - flicker

Pics of Spanish Prime Minister’s daughters: they are Goths :

Photo: Flickr

This Photo caused a problem: Included was a shot of the Obamas posing with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, his wife Sonsoles Espinosa, and two daughters, Laura, 16, and Alba, 13, who’ve never had photographs of themselves published previously in print or online due to a Spanish law prohibiting the media from doing so. The photo of Zapatero and his family with the Obamas was quickly removed from Flickr at the request of the Spanish government but still lurks online (in the shot seen here their faces are blurred). The flap is adding concerns on the issue of the privacy of world leaders’ children in the digital age.

Writing on The Daily Beast today, Republican Senator John McCain’s daughter Meghan expressed sympathy for the girls, who’ve been labeled as “goth” in the photo. She says she’s also bewildered by the Spanish government’s reaction:

I want to start out by saying I can’t believe there is a country that exists where the media protects children of public figures, let alone the prime minister’s daughters. It is literally hard for me to fathom that there is a place that respects the privacy of underage children of politicians and diplomats. The second part of this that makes me very sad is that these two girls are enduring a sort of baptism by fire with the media scrutiny that surrounds their family portrait with the Obamas. Not only are they not used to being photographed, but their first foray into being photographed and criticized is on a very public scale with the most famous and powerful politicians in the entire world.

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Politics is a nasty thing sometimes and the North American Swine flu is no exception from being used by politicians and people with an agenda. for most people with an unbiased view of things it would be clear that lots of  B.S was made about the connection of immigrants and swine flu. but for most racist it cant be seen. its must be the brain they have that lacks any objective thinking.

if you look at history you can see that immigrants are an easy target for people looking for a scapegoat , most are racist people.

just look at Racist Republican  Michael Savage

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By michaelpinto

No matter what side you’re on you have to admit that Pat is very bright (for starters he got it right in Iraq before most others on either side). His thesis is that the Republicans are becoming a regional party limited to the south, and looking at Sarah Palin I’d say that he’s right on the money.

Pat Buchanan: Is the GOP Still a National Party?

creators.com — The majority of 49 states and 60 percent of the nation Nixon cobbled together in 1972, that became the Reagan coalition of 49 states and 60 percent of the nation in 1984, is a faded memory for the GOP. Demographically, philosophically and culturally, the party base has been shrinking since Bush I won his 40-state triumph over Michael Dukakis.

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