RUT-ROH … Dem Congressman Barney Franks Present During Pot Bust at James Ready’s home in Ogunquit, ME

FRANKS REEFER MADNESS …

This is rich … Massachusetts US Representative Barney Franks was present at a police pot bust at the home of  James Ready’s home in Ogunquit, ME, according to reports. Oh, by the way, the bust for possession of drugs took place in August, 2007.

FOX25 has learned that Congressman Barney Frank was present during a marijuana arrest at James Ready’s home in Ogunquit, Maine.  Ready is well-known for his relationship with Congressman Frank.

According to a police report, police charged Ready with marijuana possession, cultivation and use of drug paraphernalia in August of 2007.  Ready admitted to civil possession and paid a fine.  The remaining charges were dismissed in 2008.

Sources tell FOX25 that when Frank was questioned he told police that he did not live in the house and that he only smoked cigars.

Ogunquit, ME eh, lol. Barney Franks told police he was smoking something else.

However, what is more telling of this as stated by Jammie Wearing Fool is how exactly is Frank’s present at a police drug bust and this story never hit the news? This story is two years old. Imagine if it was a drug bust with Republicans present?

More at Weasel Zippers and the dupicity of one Barney Franks.

CNN Down 68% in Prime Time Ratings … FOX News Up Almost 10% Since Obama WH Declared War on Fox

FOX UP … CNN DOWN!

It is the law of unintended consequences by the White House and one of the worst political calculations in recent memory. Everyone, including other media outlets, could probably have predicted the media boost and WH backlash that this would provide to Fox. Obama even went so far as to force the other media outlets to FOX’s aid. Oops! And these are the people that run the country, huh?

Maybe CNN would like to ask the communications director with the Obama White House whether Barack Obama would like to declare a war on CNN? The once only 24–7 news network game in town now finds its prime time ratings drop 68%.

I have been reporting CNN’s bad numbers for some time and now it will be official when the October numbers are in, CNN is in last place behind MSNBC, HLN and you know who.

CNN’s numbers have dropped in half overall (52%) and 68% in prime time comparing October 2008 to 2009, TV by the Numbers reported.

In the 25-54 demographic, CNN dropped 62% overall and by 77% in prime time.

It would seem that it does not pay to be an Obama “Official News Media Organization”.

CNN can provide all the excuses they want. The fact of the matter is that “We the People” are voting with our remote controls and are tired of liberal slanted media. CNN is quick to blame “opinion” cable shows; however, it is not as though they do not have the same. They just have ones that are unwatchable.

However, FOX News is up nearly 10% since the Obama White House foolishly decided to declare war on Fox.

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Obama White House Tries to Ban FOX News From Press Pool … MSM Backs Fox and Obama WH Backs Down

The thin skinned, baby & Chief …

Obama has finally bitten off more than he can chew and has severely over played his hand. MSM slaps Obama White House hand and Obama WH backs down. What is this president going to do when the Press turns on him?

Now this White House was going to ban a single News organization from an interview? To the LEFT, who knew hope and change meant Richard Nixon and an enemies list?

What is wrong with this White House? How childish and small, let alone Unconstitutional could they possible be? Obama’s war on FOX News has come to this game of chicken where the White House tried to bar Fox News from interviewing pay czar Kenneth Feinberg  As Hot Air states, which act of this White House is the most disgraceful? Can we choose all of the below?

Decide for yourself what the most disgraceful aspect of this is. Was it the fact that Gibbs told Jake Tapper explicitly on Monday that the White House wouldn’t try to dictate to the press pool who should and shouldn’t be included — before doing precisely that? Was it Anita Dunn going out of her way to say she respects Major Garrett as a fair reporter — before the administration decided he didn’t deserve a crack here at Feinberg? Or was it the repeated insistence by Dunn and Axelrod that of course the administration will make its officials available to Fox — before pulling the plug today?

KUDOS to the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV news networks who stepped in an agreed to skip the interview if FOX News was not included. When push comes to shove, all of the MSM is in it together no matter what party in in office.

 Obama White House gets slapped down by the MSM. Media sides with FOX News over Obama White House

Barack Obama actually complained and whined about Fox News in a secret closed door White House meeting with the so-called real media that had the likes of MSNBC’s Maddow and Olbermann present? There’s some credibility you can believe in.

As Hot Air states, I though the President was not losing any sleep over this? So then why would he assemble his MSM lapdogs together in a whine-fest? Did Maureen Dowd bring the brie? Obama doen’t lose sleep over this? Are you kidding, he is obsessed with it!

NewsBusters brings is via CNN and Anderson Cooper the unthinkable … CNN comparing Barack Obama, The One, The Obamamessiah is Richard Nixon. Wow, that’s going to leave a mark.

How do you know that the White House’s anti-Fox News campaign has gone seriously wrong? When CNN, let alone Anderson Cooper, begins to compare the Obama and Nixon administrations. 

An Inconvenient Poll: Al Gore, Looks Like American’s Think the Earth is Losing Its Fever … Global Warming Down 20 Points in 3 Years

An Inconvenient Poll: Belief in global warming down 20 points in 3 years …

Is Al Gore getting the cold shoulder on Global warming? In a recent Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, only 57% of Americans think there is solid evidence that the world is getting warmer. The belief that man is responsible for Al “the earth has a fever” Gore’s global warming has also fallen. That is down 20% points in 3 years and down 14% from just last year.

Pew Research Center

Americans are beginning to get educated on the so-called science of global warming. They are no longer believing Gore hook, line and sinker. The more America becomes informed, the more they turn away from the global warming propaganda.

In a poll of 1,500 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People&the Press, released Thursday, the number of people saying there is strong scientific evidence that the Earth has gotten warmer over the past few decades is down from 71 percent in April of last year and from 77 percent when Pew started asking the question in 2006. The number of people who see the situation as a serious problem also has declined.

The steepest drop has occurred during the past year, as Congress and the Obama administration have taken steps to control heat-trapping emissions for the first time and international negotiations for a new treaty to slow global warming have been under way. At the same time, there has been mounting scientific evidence of climate change — from melting ice caps to the world’s oceans hitting the highest monthly recorded temperatures this summer.

Since 2006, across every party line including Democrats the belief that there is evidence that global warming exists has gone down drastically. Democrats has seen a drop of -16%, Republicans -24 and Independents -26%.

This is rather poor timing on the part of Barack Obama and Democrats as they try try to ram “cap & tax” down the throats of Americans. In the present political and economic climate, pardon the pun, their is hardly the appetite for such measures.  All this while the global warming folks are set to meet at the Copenhagen summit in December. While misguided environmental extremists look to destroy Americas economy in the midst of a recession, Q and O points out that developing countries like India are not willing to sacrifice development for climate change as they tell everyone, suck it.

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Barack Obama Claims in NBC Interview Regarding Attacks on Fox News & Freedom of Press that “He Doesn’t Lose Sleep Over It

It was bad enough that Obama pitbulls Dunn, Axelrod and Emanuel would go before the media and whine about Fox News not being a news organization. But the President? Why would any President act so small and get involved in something like this?

Last night in an interview with NBC News, President Barack Hussein Obama refused to apologize for the attacks on Fox News and Freedom of the Press and in fact might have made matters worse.

Obama stated that the American people are more interested in how they are handling the situation in Afghanistan and creating jobs. Yes they are Mr. President! The fact that you are failing miserably at both is not lost on the American voter one bit. BTW Barack, we lost another 531,000 jobs.

Obama says he doesn’t lose sleep over it.

We are going to take media as it comes. If media is operating as a talk radio format that is one thing and if they are operating as a news outlet than that is another.

H/T Gateway Pundit via Greta’s On the Record 

Maybe it is not Fox News that is not a News organization. Maybe the real truth is that Barack Obama is not a real president ready for the enormity of the office? Maybe that is the real story in all of this. From the looks of your poll numbers President Obama, maybe you should be losing sleep.

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Daily Commentary - Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 - Anita Dunn Controls the Media?

• Well, that’s what she said. The Obama White House may control some of the media, but not all of it. Is controlling the media the same as controlling the people, though? The 2010 and 2012 elections will be a reminder to all politicians including Barack Obama as to who works for whom.

Helen Thomas Tells Obama White House to Back Off FOX News … Pigs Just Flew

Did Hell just freeze over? Helen Thomas just sided with Fox News!!!

Hey Barack Obama … you know you having a losing strategy when you have Helen Thomas, the NY Times, The Nation and other liberal media outlets against you in your battle with Fox News.

Nice cake Barack, but could ya quit this nonsense with Fox News before we you are not only eating cake, but crow as well.

Politics, and in this case the media makes strange bed fellows. Helen Thomas, yes that same Helen Thomas has made her voice be heard to the Obama White House … back off Fox News and stay out of the fight. It is pretty bad when even those in the liberal media see this Obama strategy as a loser. Ultimately, the MSM knows that Obama could be a “One and Done” President, what will happen in a new administration when the shoe is on the other foot?

Well, it’s not the first time the Grande Liberal Dame of the press corps has had words for the Obama White House, but today Helen Thomas is voicing more unlikely sentiments by telling the White House attack dogs to heel in the Fox News fight.

In an interview with MSNBC, the columnist — who is promoting her new book on presidents and their campaigns — also stressed the White House ought to “stay out of these fights.”

“They can only take you down. You can’t kill the messenger,” said Thomas, who has covered every president from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama.

Helen Thomas tells White House not to kill the messenger because one day that messenger may just be her and her LEFT leaning cohorts in the media.

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Obama White House (Anita Dunn) Admits … We Control the News Media

“Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control.” (Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director)

Every White House tries to shape the message that they want to present to the American people; however, is the Barack Obama and his minions taking this to a whole new level and looking to control the media? It would appear from comment and action that might be the case.  Is this the reason why the Obama Administration has come out swinging against Fox News? Not because they are not a true media outlet, but because they cannot control them.

President Obama’s presidential campaign focused on “making” the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was “controlled,” White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.

“Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control,” said Dunn.

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Obama White House Adviser David Axelrod Says Fox News Channel is “not really a news station”

This White House is getting to sound like a tired broken record …

Why does this White House continue to whine about Fox News. How small they sound and how dangerous a situation that a White House complain about dissent. How dare anyone question them or their policies. The rest of the MSM has forgot that it is their job, no matter what party the President belongs to. However, this White House continues to be “lost in smallness.”

Senior Obama White House advisor David Axelrod said on This Week with George Stephanopoulos that the FOX News channel is “not really a news station”. It is pretty pathetic when a White House feels the need to go on other networks to complain about another rather than confronting them directly.

 ”I’m not concerned,” Axelrod said on ABC’s “This Week” when George Stephanopoulos asked about the back-and-forth between the White House and Fox News.

“Mr. [Rupert] Murdoch has a talent for making money, and I understand that their programming is geared toward making money. The only argument [White House communications director] Anita [Dunn] was making is that they’re not really a news station if you watch even — it’s not just their commentators, but a lot of their news programming.

Axelrod states that he is not concerned, yet this Obama White House continues to fixate on Fox News and restricting freedom of the press. Obviously, it is a concern to Obama. There is no reason why this would not go away if it were not a concern to the Administration. The White House must feel that Fox News is providing an unwanted platform for individuals who dare disagree with Obama. How frightening is it that any government thinks they can squelch free speech? Is it any wonder why Obama’s poll numbers are at 45%. Obama is failing on all fronts.

It was not just Axelrod, but White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as well. Emanuel said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Fox “is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective.”

Maybe the Obama White House is not a real Presidency?

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LEFT Wing Liars and Media Wins … Rush Limbaugh Sacked from NFL St Louis Rams Bid

It’s a sad day in America when lies and slander can prevent a private citizen from Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from the group looking to bid on the St. Louis Rams.

Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a group headed by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts. Checketts said in a statement Wednesday that Limbaugh’s participation had become a complication in the group’s efforts and the bid will move forward without him.

Checketts told the Associated Press he will have no further comment on the bid process.

As the Gateway Pundit states, State-Run Media Liars Win!

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had stated that the NFL is no place for divisive comments. However, Goodell seems to think that its ok to give convicts, law breakers and players responsible for others deaths a second chance.

As we had previously posted, it is rather amazing that Rush does not belong in the NFL, yet as The Powers that Be writes … look who is.

PowerLine states, Rush is Out and offers this final observation that all should head. Because at some point, it might just be you.

A final observation, perhaps too obvious to require saying: It’s no coincidence that Democratic Party outlets like CNN had to dredge up fake quotes to make their case. Nothing Rush actually said would do the trick, even though he’s been on the radio three hours a day, five days a week, for more than twenty years. That really tells you all you need to know.

Our final observation is that to word of wise to the LEFT. Do not ask for things they might come true. Had you allowed Rush to become a part owner of the Rams he might have taken a fancy to his new endeavor and taken time of his radio show to devote to being an owner. The NFL is a big boys club after all. However, since you have seen fit to prevent him from this, guess what. he will remain on the radio and be an even bigger voice against the LEFT, Liberalism, Socialism and Obama.

In the end, because of the false cries of racism and slanderous accusations, the LEFT has actually made Rush Limbaugh a martyr to the out of control use of the race card. Republicans are called it constantly for disagreeing with any Obama policy. Think these chickens are not going to come home to roost? Think again.