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Bottom line is users are responsible for backing up their data. This is what happens when you depend on someone else to take care of your personal information. Smartphones for people who do dumb things.

Sidekick users deserve more than $100 apology – PC World- msnbc.com.

Let’s see Fox has the highest rating and largest audience of the network news, basically cleaning everybody else’s clock. So, how smart is it of the White House to attack them?? If the Bush WH had done something like this the media would have had a hissy fit and covered it 24/7 as meanness, unconstitutional, using the WH for political ends etc:, etc:

Plus, with this tactic the WH is alienating about fifty percent of more of the country and basically demonstrating that it does not serve these people.

White House Says Fox Is Not A News Network | NewsBusters.org.

It just gets dopier and dopier every day….LOL. LOL, seriously people get real. LOL……..LOL

Newsweek: Lay Off, America — President Obama Deserves The Nobel Peace Prize | NewsBusters.org.

Ok, Michael here’s the deal and you already know what it is. Give all your money away you’ve made in profits. We don’t care give it to the poor and disenfranchised, give it to charity but get rid of it. Then go to confession and ask for forgiveness for your sin of making money in the capitalist system. Let us know when you get done. Until then you need to hire someone to shovel your hypocrisy for you its getting pretty deep.

ABC Raves Over Michael Moore’s ‘Deeply Christian’ New Movie; Lauds ‘American Populist’ | NewsBusters.org.

Eeeeee Gaaddd, what a buffoon……..

Michelle Malkin » Ostrich award: Nancy Pelosi joins Charlie Gibson.

Bill Maher is an idiot. He is a certified, card carrying idiot. The idiot police need to come and take him away before he hurts himself.

HBO’s Maher: Americans Too ‘Stupid’ so President Should Force ObamaCare into Law | NewsBusters.org.

Whom ever they attempt to prosecute the American people need to rally behind them and demonstrate that this is unacceptable.

‘Inhumane’ CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe – Yahoo! News.

So, Americans are getting angry and perhaps taking up arms because the Democrats and Obama are attempting to bring more socialism to America. Of course, they play the racist card but we can assure the Southern Poverty Law Center and the MSM that this is simply not the case. People are pissed not because we have a black president they are pissed because the President is bringing socialism to the country and people simply do not want that. People are tired of politicians and others telling them how to live their lives and berating them every time they turn on the TV and committing the worst sin of all; not listening to what the people are saying. The Congress critters and the media have long ignored what people have to say especially if it criticizes them. So, when push comes to shove we are going to get your attention and you may not like the way we do it.

CBS Warns of ‘Right-Wing’ ‘Anti-Government’ Extremism

On Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Bob Orr highlighted a report released by the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center claiming a recent increase in the number of militias, and warning of the possibility of increased violence by anti-government, right-wing groups and individuals, angry at Democratic party control of the government and of a black President holding office. Orr warned: "Officials say a sour economy, a Democrat-controlled government, and a black President present the kind of perfect storm that could further fuel the growth of the militia movement."

Orr’s report notably ran just eight minutes after a piece filed by fellow correspondent Ben Tracy in which Tracy had referred to the anti-government views of some anti-ObamaCare protesters who have showed anger at recent town hall events. Tracy: "Some experts believe a growing anti-government sentiment, fueled by extraordinary events such as the bailouts of the banking and auto industries, is spilling over into the health care debate."

Anchor Katie Couric introduced Orr’s report:

Federal agents are becoming increasingly concerned about a rise in the number of heavily armed militia groups springing up around the country. A report out today says the movement is fueled by extremists who are angry with the government and dislike having an African-American in the White House.

After recounting recent training activity by militias, Orr cited the Southern Poverty Law Center without identifying it as a left-leaning group:

It’s all part of what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a resurgence in the anti-government militia movement. A report out today claims 50 new militia training groups have sprung up in less than two years, and the right-wing extremists, historically motivated by a distrust of government, are now especially angry about the election of America’s first African-American President. 

Orr recounted recent murders committed by individuals known to hold right-wing views before relaying that the Southern Poverty Law Center does not expect the level violence of the 1990s when the Oklahoma City bombing occurred, before the CBS correspondent concluded: "But officials say a sour economy, a Democrat-controlled government, and a black President present the kind of perfect storm that could further fuel the growth of the militia movement."

Below is a complete transcript of the report from the Wednesday, August 12, CBS Evening News:

KATIE COURIC: Federal agents are becoming increasingly concerned about a rise in the number of heavily armed militia groups springing up around the country. A report out today says the movement is fueled by extremists who are angry with the government and dislike having an African-American in the White House. With more on that story, here’s Justice correspondent Bob Orr.

BOB ORR: In Ohio, citizen soldiers train for urban combat while snipers in Michigan practice with high-powered weapons. And their call to arms echoes across the Internet.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN IN MILITARY OUTFIT AND COVERED FACE SPEAKING ON A WEB SITE: You have the right to keep and bear arms. Go out and buy a gun.

ORR: It’s all part of what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a resurgence in the anti-government militia movement. A report out today claims 50 new militia training groups have sprung up in less than two years, and the right-wing extremists, historically motivated by a distrust of government, are now especially angry about the election of America’s first African-American President.

MARK POTOK, THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: We’ve seen a real streak of racism injected into the movement, and I think the reason for that primarily is the idea that the enemy, the federal government, is headed by a black man.

ORR: The report cites recent attacks carried out by lone-wolf actors, motivated by radical ideologies. Three Pittsburgh police officers killed by an avowed white supremacist. A Wichita doctor murdered by an anti-abortion rights protestor, and a Holocaust Museum security guard gunned down by a Nazi sympathizer. Now law enforcement authorities are urging the public to be vigilant.

PAUL KURTZ, CBS NEWS HOMELAND SECURITY ANALYST: If you have an individual who’s consistently talking about taking up arms against innocents, against government, that should be a clear red flag for people to take action.

ORR: The report concludes the threat from radical groups and militias is not as great as it was in the 90s, a decade that brought the fiery standoff at Waco and the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. But officials say a sour economy, a Democrat-controlled government, and a black President present the kind of perfect storm that could further fuel the growth of the militia movement. Bob Orr, CBS News, Washington.

Matthews: ‘Is Sarah Palin a Poster Girl for Racism?’

On Wednesday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews hosted a discussion with Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker and Salon’s Joan Walsh as the trio discussed Parker’s latest column, "A Tip for the GOP: Look Away," in which she argues that the Republican party is hurt by being centered in the South with its history of racial politics. Matthews, who would later theorize that Sarah Palin will exploit white racism by visiting "cul de sacs of whitedom," set up the segment by reading a line from Parker’s column which compares Palin to a white character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird who falsely accuses a black man of raping her, leading to his false conviction and death in prison. Matthews:

Here`s a quote that really grabbed me: "That same rage was on display again in the fall of 2008, but this time the frenzy was stimulated by a pretty gal with a mocking little wink. Sarah Palin may not have realized what she was doing. But southerners, weaned on Harper Lee, heard the dog whistle." Kathleen, "heard the dog whistle." Is Sarah Palin a poster girl for racism? Yes or no?

Parker suggested that Palin is indeed a "poster girl for racism," though "not consciously," and alluded to white racism being incited by a white woman and black man being pitted against each other, as in Sarah Palin versus Barack Obama, or in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Parker:

I certainly don`t think she, Sarah Palin, knows anything about Harper Lee or this deep history in the South, where you don`t position a white woman and a black male and pretend like there`s nothing happening there. There`s a deep, deep history. That`s why I mentioned, dropped the Harper Lee in there.

Parker soon bizarrely suggested that conservative positions on states rights and even gay marriage are in reality veiled attempts at inciting white racism. Parker:

There`s this subliminal level of communication that goes on. The Southern Strategy has always been — well, since they stopped using the N-word and being explicit about what they`re trying to do with race and, you know, creating this “us versus them” dynamic, it became increasingly vague through the years. You started talking about states rights at a certain point. Then you started talking about, you know, these wedge issues like gay marriage and on and on. 

Matthews tied Henry Gates, the "birther" conspiracy theorists, and Sarah Palin together as he suggested that all are linked to racial politics:

Is she connecting the dots, Joan, among Henry Louis Gates, the birther movement, the Sotomayor testimony and confirmation questioning, so tribalistic? There`s no doubt about it. All that stuff has become very tribalistic, something we thought we`d begun to crack in this country. Is Sarah the dog whistle that says, yeah, that`s what it`s about?

Finally, the Hardball host theorized that Palin would focus on visiting predominantly white rural areas, which he referred to as "cul de sacs of whitedom":

Palin has attacked New York, Washington and Los Angeles. She goes after the government, after the media, after Hollywood. Anything that`s on the coast is evil to her. She`s an Alaskan who, I bet you any money, is going to spend most of her time down in the middle parts of the country, the rural white parts. She`s going to find those cul de sacs of whitedom, and exploit the hell out of them, right?

Matthews has a history of finding racism in bizarre places, as evidenced by the March 11, 2008, edition of his Hardball show when he voiced agreement with New York Times columnist Orlando Patterson who declared that "I couldn’t help but think of D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, the racist movie epic that helped revive the Klu Klux Klan with its portrayal of black men lurking in the bushes around white society," when he saw one of Hillary Clinton’s campaign ads that questioned whether Barack Obama could effectively protect Americans while they sleep at night.

Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the segment from the Wednesday, August 5, Hardball on MSNBC:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: We`re back. Time for the politics fix with syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker and Salon.com`s editor-in-chief, Joan Walsh. I`m not sure you two are going to argue much, but let me tell you, I`ve never seen a stronger column in the newspapers than what I read this morning when I got up. And the reason I`m so glad Kathleen is joining us, Joan, is that she wrote this column basically backing up Senator George Voinovich of Ohio, saying the Republican party, which has done pretty well over the last half century, has been basically getting destroyed by the right wingers in the South.

And we`ve talked a lot about the obsession with this birth movement down in, birther thing down in the South and all the rest of the ethnic potential here. Here`s a quote that really grabbed me: "That same rage was on display again in the fall of 2008, but this time the frenzy was stimulated by a pretty gal with a mocking little wink. Sarah Palin may not have realized what she was doing. But southerners, weaned on Harper Lee, heard the dog whistle."

Kathleen, "heard the dog whistle." Is Sarah Palin a poster girl for racism? Yes or no?

KATHLEEN PARKER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: Not consciously.

MATTHEWS: Not consciously?

PARKER: Not consciously. I don`t think — I certainly don`t think she, Sarah Palin, knows anything about Harper Lee or this deep history in the South, where you don`t position a white woman and a black male and pretend like there`s nothing happening there. There`s a deep, deep history. That`s why I mentioned, dropped the Harper Lee in there. You want to talk about the Southern Strategy?

MATTHEWS: Well, it’s like To Kill a Mockingbird. I just saw it again, one of the great movies ever, where the white woman claimed that she’d been, you know, molested by this totally innocent black guy.

PARKER: Right.

MATTHEWS: And she was believed for no reason, except she said so.

PARKER: Right. Look — and please let me be really, really clear. I`m not saying Sarah Palin did that. I`m just saying that there`s this subliminal level, subliminal level of communication that goes on. The Southern Strategy has always been — well, since they stopped using the N-word and being explicit about what they`re trying to do with race and, you know, creating this “us versus them” dynamic, it became increasingly vague through the years. You started talking about states rights at a certain point. Then you started talking about, you know, these wedge issues like gay marriage and on and on. But ultimately, it`s always about an "us and them" dynamic.

JOAN WALSH, SALON.COM: Right.

PARKER: And Sarah Palin`s really very good at that. And she is, you know, when she plays her populist role, there`s no one better at it.

MATTHEWS: Is she connecting the dots, Joan, among Henry Louis Gates, the birther movement, the Sotomayor testimony and confirmation questioning, so tribalistic? There`s no doubt about it. All that stuff has become very tribalistic, something we thought we`d begun to crack in this country. Is Sarah the dog whistle that says, yeah, that`s what it`s about?

WALSH: I think Sarah Palin`s overall message is one of “us versus them.” I think that she took the lead on the campaign trail — and you and I talked about it back in September and October, Chris — in really making Obama the other. She would literally say things like, you know, we don`t know enough about him. We`re not sure where he`s from. She would talk about the regular America, you know, and palling around with terrorists. We`ve taken that apart. So she was the person, not John McCain — maybe behind the scenes the McCain people were encouraging her. But she had a real zest for it, you know. She did it with a real zing and panache.

She really, you know, she had that visceral appearance of enjoying it when she was really saying some pretty hateful and not-founded things. Barack Obama is one of us. He`s very much so. The only thing different about him is he`s black. He`s our first black President. And, you know, I think we`ve made enormous racial progress. I don`t want to, and I know Kathleen doesn`t want to overstate what`s going on right now.

But we`re in a moment right now with the birthers, with the reaction to the Gates` affair, with the trashing of Sonia Sotomayor, and, you know, even John McCain saying he`s not going to vote for her, where the Republican party seems, seems to believe that its best route is tribalism and scaring people. Whether they`re scaring people about Obama is going to take away your health care or they`re scaring you about we don`t know what he`s about; he`s a Muslim, he`s a socialist, it`s fear. The tactic is fear and fear alone. And I loved Kathleen`s column. It was awesome.

PARKER: Thank you.

MATTHEWS: I`m struck by the numbers. This new poll that came out and showed that the southerners, a majority of them are not willing to commit – - a majority of southerners, including blacks — obviously the blacks aren`t part of this, I assume — don`t have any reason to believe he`s an American. They either don`t believe it or they`re –

WALSH: It`s stunning. They`re not sure.

MATTHEWS: A majority of them are not willing to say, yeah, he`s one of us. And the rest of the country is overwhelming. Nine out of 10 say sure, he`s one of us. So why is the South alone in this regard? Not Northeast, not Midwest, not West. But the South stands out there uniquely and regionally and racially opposed to this guy.

PARKER: One word, Chris, one word: Confederacy. I mean, you know, the South is very, I live there, okay? I want to make that clear, too, because I`m not bashing southerners. I love the South and I am a southerner. But-

MATTHEWS: But 40 percent of those states like yours are black.

PARKER: It’s part of the history.

MATTHEWS: So it`s the 60 percent that are white.

PARKER: It`s part of the culture to be secessionist.

MATTHEWS: Like Rick Perry effectively is?

PARKER: To always view the federal government as the enemy. And it`s very, yeah, yes, I can`t, I can`t-

MATTHEWS: How about Palin? Let`s talk about Palin. Palin has attacked New York, Washington and Los Angeles. She goes after the government, after the media, after Hollywood.

PARKER: Yes.

MATTHEWS: Anything that`s on the coast is evil to her. She`s an Alaskan who, I bet you any money, is going to spend most of her time down in the middle parts of the country, the rural white parts. She`s going to find those cul de sacs of whitedom, and exploit the hell out of them, right?

WALSH: But wasn`t she in New York last night at Michael`s, the big media and celebrity-

MATTHEWS: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) because she`s got a lawyer who is smart enough, Robert Barnett, to take her to the one place she`s going to get a hell of a lot of publicity.

The state buys the homes and resales them to Muslims to satisfy their religion. Isn’t that unconstitutional?? A state government agency that receives federal money for housing advocating a certain religious practice I am sure is unconstitutional.

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