Let’s talk about media bias and how the mainstream media delivers the news based on the political designation of the administration or the individual.

First example that comes to mind is the Exxon Valdez oil spill.  The oil spill occurred back in March of 1989 when George H. Bush was President.  Who could forget the evening news reports leading each night with the coverage of the “environmental disaster” and how Bush was “ignoring” efforts or his “ties” to the oil titans.  There are some liberals who want to rewrite history and claim that Bush got a free pass, but those of us who recall the disaster remember the attacks the new President was taking.  Now, let’s compare that to how the liberal media have treated Obama during the BP disaster.  Very little accountability for the President.  No demands for investigating why he’s administration awarded the highest award for safety for this rig.  Tepid demand for him to do more for the clean-up operation.  No calls for investigations into why it took so long for oil skimmers.  No 10 minute a night coverage of oil covered birds and filthy landscape.  Nope.  Very little critical coverage of the President’s handling of the disaster.

Another example.  When George W. Bush was President, the media would “honor” those who died in Iraq, but scrolling their names at the end of every evening newscast.  Yes, the names would slowly go by with the ages posted alongside.  Now anyone with a modicum of commonsense clearly knows that the mainstream media could care little about “honoring” the fallen, this was clearly an attempt to use these dead heroes for political propaganda.   Scroll the names so Americans would see how many have died and they’d lose the stomach to continue to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Today, you would think that no one is dying in Iraq or Afghanistan- no more the scrolling of the names of the fallen “honoring” them.  No longer the daily body count posted in large bold numbers on our tv screens- no, the “honoring” has ceased with a Democrat in office.

And what about the “torture” prison in Guantanamo Bay, remember the monthly visits by the International Red Cross and by members of Congress who reported back about the “conditions”?   Have the visits also ceased or has the media found Guantanamo not that interesting to follow any more?  Aren’t these prisoners the same ones who the media claimed were being held indefinitely and without due process?  Is these less an important story, because Bush isn’t President and Obama is?

Remember the “Great Depression of 1991″ where under George Bush the unemployment rate went to 6.8%.  Night after night we heard about those who were left homeless, those who were starving… saw clips of people standing in unemployment lines, heard story after story about how neighbors and family members had lost their jobs… however, with 9.5% unemployment, record number of foreclosures, record number of bankruptcies, record number on foodstamps, and a record number on government assistance, we hardly hear or see anything in the mainstream media that compares to the coverage of 1991.  Liberals will tell you that Obama inherited a recession and therefore should not be covered in the same way that George H. Bush was.  Ok, so let recall the reaction and coverage by the mainstream media of George W. Bush in 2003 when he inherited a recession from Clinton.  The average unemployment rate was 6.0% in 2003 and the mainstream media was relentless in its coverage of how awful things were for the American people.

Let’s look at the coverage of former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.  This woman is ripped apart each night in the media and yet, “suck on this” Al Gore with recent revelations that he sexually harassed a handful of women has gone virtually ignored.  When revelations of John Edwards emerged, the medias excuse for not covering it as much as it did the story of Mark Sanford was that John Edwards was a “private citizen” with “no further political aspirations”.  With Sarah Palin, we not only hear critical things about her, but the media sensationalizes stories about her children.  Why?  Is Al Gore not trying to impact policy?  Was he not the former senior Senator from Tennessee? The two-time Presidential Candidate?  The Vice President of the United States for 8 years?  The Democrat Presidential nominee who lost becoming President by 350 votes?  The Nobel Peace Prize Winner?  Can we explain the media coverage of Sarah Palin and her family and the total lack of coverage regarding Al Gore and his massage escapades?  Al Gore’s alleged treatment of women as nothing more than pieces of meat who he can forcefully demand sex from does not seem to merit coverage from the mainstream media.  We can be sure that had Al Gore been a Republican, we would still be reading and hearing about it today.

It comes as no surprise that the American public would have a negative view of the Republican Party especially when there is such a bias in the way that Republicans and Democrats are covered.  I would say, if the Democrats were covered in the same manner as Republicans or Republicans in the same manner as Democrats, one could argue that Republicans would retain a sizable majority in Congress and would easily win the Presidency.  If the media is truly to be trusted, it must first and foremost cover the news in a fair and equitable manner.  The importance of the media to our society is unquestionable and therefore they must present the facts and news in an unbiased manner and allow a well-informed citizenry to decide which course or direction it wishes to take.  It is not the job of the media to hide facts, under report, bury stories, or skew in an effort to help elect a party that they best affiliate with.  The public depends on them as an honest source of information to make informed decisions.

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Let’s see if the mainstream media will cover this story of Gore throwing a woman down and trying to force her into sex.  It’s interesting the lack of attention that this story is getting despite Gore being the vice-president for 8 years, a Senator, a Presidential candidate, a Nobel peace prize winner, and leading spokesman for global warming.  Maybe the mainstream media is still focusing on that “insignificant former governor of Alaska”.  Strange how we kept hearing about rumors of Sarah Palin’s alleged troubled marriage and of alleged infidelity, but a police report on Gore’s allege sexual assault is all but ignored.  Double standard?

According to a 73-page “Confidential Special Report” made public by authorities Wednesday, the “licensed massage therapist” stated she was summoned to a suite at the upscale Lucia Hotel at the request of a guest, where “during the course of this massage session Al Gore did sexually assault me in his room.”

In a detailed statement given to police more than two years after the alleged incident the woman described her surprise at arriving for the VIP massage appointment to find Al Gore drinking beer and opening his arms in a hug saying “Call Me Al.”

But she said her VIP client later turned “angry and threatening” when she resisted Gore’s efforts to force her hand to his inner thigh and lower abdominal area during the massage and then attempted to rip her clothes as she struggled against him, she told police.

Gore “flipped me flat on my back and threw his whole body face down over atop me pinning me down and outweighing me by quite a bit,” injuring her back and legs, she claimed. “He kept trying to have sex with me,” said the woman, who described the situation as “frightening.”

According to the report, the woman said Gore booked the appointment using the pseudonym “Mr. Stone.”

In a statement accompanying the report, Portland Police said that after initially refusing to cooperate in early 2007, the masseuse returned in 2009, finally offering to be interviewed by investigators, bringing a prepared statement and the clothes she said she had worn that night as evidence.

You can read the full 73 page police report here.  Be warned,  it is very detailed and graphic.

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Oregonlive.com

The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office confirmed today that a woman who alleged unwanted sexual contact by Al Gore reported it to police in 2006, and the prosecutor’s office was briefed by the Portland Police Bureau in late 2006 and January 2007.

“We were told the woman was not willing to be interviewed by the Portland Police Bureau and did not want a criminal investigation to proceed,’’ Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk said, in a prepared statement.

Today, as the National Enquirer reported that it had interviewed a Portland masseuse who complained of unwanted sexual contact by the former vice president at the Hotel Lucia on Oct. 24, 2006, the district attorney’s office was notified that the Portland Police Bureau had conducted a further investigation of the allegation in 2009.

“If the complainant and the Portland Police Bureau wish to pursue the possibility of a criminal prosecution, additional investigation by the Bureau will be necessary and will be discussed with the Portland Police Bureau,’’ Schrunk said, in his statement.

Gore family spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said the former vice president has no comment. Gore and his wife announced June 1 they were separating.

At the time, according to a Portland police 2007 report, the woman reported the encounter several weeks after the incident. Portland Detective Cheryl Waddell said the woman cancelled interview appointments three times, and declined police investigation, saying a civil case would be pursued.

Portland police Sgt. Rich Austria said the woman’s lawyer had contacted the U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Oregon State Police “in an attempt to have a larger law enforcement agency investigate this case. All above agencies declined and referred him to the agency of jurisdiction where the alleged crime occurred,” Waddell wrote in her report.

Waddell was assigned the case Dec. 19, 2006. By 2007, the woman or her attorney told police the case was going to be handled civilly.

“This case is exceptionally cleared” Waddell wrote in her report, noting the complainant refuses to cooperate with the investigation or even report a crime.

Randall Vogt, a Pearl District attorney specialized in sexual misconduct cases, said he represented the masseuse in 2006 after she claimed Vice-President Al Gore sexually attacked her during a massage.

He declined to identify the woman and said they had not been in touch since her original claim was investigated by Portland Police.

“That file was closed and put to bed and forgotten,” Vogt said. “She and I parted on friendly terms as best I can recall.”

Vogt said he was not aware that his former client reactivated her claims against Gore last year, prompting police to reinvestigate the allegations.

There’s no evidence a civil suit had been filed.

In January 2009, the woman returned to Portland police and said she wanted to give a statement. Detective Molly Daul and a victim advocate from the sexual assault unit met with the woman. She reported that she was repeatedly subjected to unwanted sexual touching while in his presence.

She reported she still had clothes that she had worn during the encounter, but detectives never collected them as evidecne “because they did not feel there was any evidentiary value to the clothing” given the description of what she said had occurred.

After interviewing the woman, the Police Bureau provided additional counseling services through its victim advocate program. The case was not investigated further “because detectives concluded there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations.

In June 2010, the woman called police, asked for a copy of her statement, and asked if she could edit it. She also advised the bureau she was going to take the case to the media.

In 2007 or 2008, then Portland Tribune reporter Nick Budnick made a public records request for the Portland police report, obtained it but the newspaper did not run a story.

Statute of limitations for third-degree sex abuse, which is the classification Portland police gave to the complaint in 2006 and 2007, is four years after the commission of the crime.

However, if the accused is not an inhabitant or usually resident in the state, then the statute of limitations is extended for a maximum of three years. So in this case, the statute of limitations would not run out until 2013.

Where there’s smoke there’s fire.  I have very little doubt that Gore didn’t dip into his bank account and paid off that woman and that’s why she refused to prosecute.  Let’s remember, this is the same Al Gore who criticized Bill Clinton for his behavior with Monica Lewinsky.

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Hey, friends and readers, I apologize for being away and not posting.  My ex boyfriend came to visit and I was spending a few days with him and my current boyfriend.  It was funny, yesterday the three of us drove to Clay Aiken’s subdivision and checked out all the mansions.  I’m sure Clay would have loved to for the three of us to knock on his door.  It looks like Clay is trying to hide the view of his house from the street.  It looks like landscapers have planted lots of leyland cyprus, Japanese maple, and various other trees and vegetation.

So let’s talk about some other things.  Obama’s approval has dropped. Overall, 42% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. That’s the lowest level of approval yet recorded for this president. Fifty-seven percent (57%) now disapprove. Those are the lowest ratings yet recorded for this president. The president’s approval rating has held steady in the 46% – 47% range for six months and it remains to be seen whether this new low is merely statistical noise or the start of a lasting change.

Star Magazine reports Al Gore’s split from wife Tipper after 40 years of marriage was a shock to everyone who thought theirs was the ideal marriage. Now Star can exclusively reveal that the former Vice President was having an affair with Larry David’s ex-wife — for the past two years! In the June 28 issue of Star, on sale Wednesday, Star reports that Al and Tipper’s breakup didn’t come as much of a surprise to one Hollywood player — Laurie David. Star has learned that Al has been having an affair with Laurie, who divorced Seinfeld creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David in 2007 amidst reports she was cheating with the caretaker of their Martha’s Vineyard summer home.

While Obama and the Democrats try to regulate the banks and blame them for the failure that was perpetuated by the government, we learn that government managed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could eventually be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and face the ignominy of trading on the pink sheets after a U.S. government takeover destroyed most of the value of their common stock. Remember, Democrats want the government to run health-care.

So what did people think about Obama’s first oval office address? Let’s read some of the comments by the unbiased and non-racist MSNBC:

Olbermann: “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days.”

Matthews compared Obama to Carter.

Olbermann: “Nothing specific at all was said.”

Matthews: “No direction.”

Howard Fineman: “He wasn’t specific enough.”

Olbermann: “I don’t think he aimed low, I don’t think he aimed at all. It’s startling.”

Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a “commander-in-chief.”

Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. “I’ll barf if he does it one more time.”

Matthews: “A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk.”

Matthews: “I don’t sense executive command.”

Ouch, that was harsh.

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Al Gore's Nashville Home- check out the SUV's

Al Gore's Nashville Mansion

We recently learned that Al and Tipper Gore are separating and that means the couple will eventually have to split their assets.  When Al and Tipper Gore left the White House in 2001 the couples estimated worth was between $1-$2 million.  Nine years later, Al and Tipper are worth between $100 and $200 million.  There’s a lot of money in scaring people into believing that man is destroying the Earth and we’re all going to die.

Gore has been able to parlay his “concern” for the environment and global warming into a fortune- making him one of the wealthiest men in America… yes one of the same type of people liberals attack as evil.  There are exceptions for rich liberals, however.  You’re not evil if you make your money as a modern day snake oil salesman, scaring people with false science.

Concerned about the environment, Gore recently purchased an $8.8 million ocean-view villa in the gated community of Montecito, California. The 6,500-square-foot villa tucked on one-and-a-half acres of grounds includes a swimming pool, a spa, fountains, five bedrooms and nine baths.  No carbon footprint there- Gore purchases “carbon exchanges” from one of his companies so he’s allowed to “pollute”.  But wait, there’s more.

Gore also owns a multimillion-dollar home in Nashville, Tenn., a condo in San Francisco in addition to their home in the Washington area, an Arlington Tudor. They bought a 100-foot houseboat named, aptly, Bio-Solar One in 2008. And they own a farm in Carthage, Tenn., that includes a zinc mine.  For someone so concerned about global warming and a “carbon footprint”, the man sure owns a lot of homes that he has to heat and cool.

Hypocrisy?  Of course.  Al Gore is a liberal.

Click here to see Al Gore’s Montecito Villa.

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Former Vice President Al Gore may have narrated an Oscar-winning documentary on global warming, but he appears to be a little cool toward the camera for a speech in North Carolina.

A Gore aide said Tuesday that media members will only be allowed to record video and audio of the first five minutes of Gore’s talk at Duke University on April 8. Photography will also be limited. Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said the restrictions are standard for his talks but she wouldn’t say why they are in place.

Aren’t these restriction a bit odd for a man who claims that the world will come to an end if something isn’t done about man-made global warming?  Like most Progressive Socialist, Al Gore doesn’t like being challenged nor does he like his speeches scrutinized.  Perhaps the limitations are in place so that Gore can continue spewing the untruths that he normally delivers in these speeches despite having been told that his “facts” are incorrect.

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1.  Five days into Winter and record snow fall has blanketed much of the United States much to the disappointment of liberals like Al Gore who has made 100′s of millions of dollars scaring the world with his nonsense of melting ice caps.

2.  Charlie Sheen appears to have relapsed as Aspen police were called out at 8:34 Christmas Day.  Sheen was arrested for felony domestic battery after being up all night boozing. Sheen, who has been an outspoken critic of war and supporter of diplomacy,  should take some of his own advice.

3.  Apple stock hit an all-time high on Thursday as rumors are circulating that the innovative company will be announcing “iPad”– a tablet computer that is said to operate on the iPhone software and is said to be a computer, digital book reader, and portable video device all wrapped up in one.  Of interesting note, Apple is also rumored to have purchased the domain name, iSlate.com.  Looks like the Kindel will become so yesterday after the iPad is launched if the rumors prove to be true.

4.  Retailers are expecting a strong December 26th since the day after Christmas falls on a Saturday.  Best Buy and Walmart are extending their holiday discounts in an effort to lure more shopper into their stores.  Take it from me, the best deals can be found after the third week of January.

5.  Terror in the skies over the United States struck again on Christmas as a radical Muslim attempted to kill hundreds of Christians on their most holy of days.  Saved by a miracle, the plane was able to land safely and the terrorist oppressed gentleman was taken into custody where he will surely be provided his Miranda rights,  an attorney paid for by US taxpayers,  his Koran, hot cooked meals appropriate for his faith, a warm bed, and a comfortable living environment.

Things are getting really confusing to me and I’m needing a liberal to take the time to really explain to me a couple of question that I have.  First, I don’t want you liberals to go on a tirade and repeat those excuses that you’ve been brainwashed to repeat.  For example; its George Bushes fault or global warming is responsible for global cooling.  I want some honest research and intelligent answers.

First dilemma;

I need help in understanding why Al Gore repeats so-called facts that he knows is inaccurate or outright lies.  Why he hasn’t corrected the many false claims he continues to make and that have been found to be false in his book, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’?  Do liberals not have an issue with, what I consider a conflict of interest, Al Gore pushing so-called, “Green Energy” and these carbon exchanging when his venture capital partnership is poised to make billions of dollars if the government enacts some of Al Gore’s proposals?   Or, is it acceptable to liberals for Al Gore and his liberal cronies to make billions off of an unproven science at the expense of the taxpayers while berating Cheney who, as a CEO of a service company, made a few million heading a company that provided a service and thousands of jobs?

Which brings me to my next question; do liberals feel that they’ve been lied to over this global warming climate change hysteria?  By the way, have you noticed that, since the Earth has been getting colder, liberals now call it “climate change”.  It’s difficult to sell “global warming” when your freezing your a*s off, but then again, there are some really stupid people who, if told that freezing cold is the result of global warming, will believe it. Every day there are more scientist who are speaking up and saying that man has no control or impact on the climate.  Are liberals aware that man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history?  Can a liberals admit that they’ve been scammed or will they bring the whole country down with them to protect and defend an ideology, because they’re too proud to admit they’ve been wrong?

Now this is something that REALLY has boggled my mind; what was wrong with the prison at Guantánamo Bay?  What’s the difference if they’re housed at Gitmo or in Chicago, aside from the fact that this administration has just put a huge target on the city and has put the prison guards and their family’s at risk.  I mean, how easy is it for an Al Qaeda operative to follow a prison guard home and threatening to kill his wife and children.  Just a thought.  It seems liberals saw Guantanamo as a way of criticizing Bush and liberal politician were quick to jump on the bandwagon rather than educating their supporters on why Gitmo was and is important.  Liberals like Obama, have boxed themselves in a corner and it’s for that reason that he’s now forced to close Gitmo and do nothing more than move them to a prison with a different name, albeit on US soil.

I have many other question, but I don’t want to get these liberals too exhausted having to actually research facts rather than emulating Al Gore and repeating the some tired lies and lines that are fed to them.

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Have the Obama Administration and these liberals lost their minds?  I mean honestly, have they?  I get an AP alert on my iPhone that the EPA has now declared Carbon Dioxide a pollutant.  Are you kidding me?  Are you truly and honestly kidding me!!!  First, let me be clear, this is nothing more than another way for government to invent an excuse to penalize companies so that they can extract more money from them.

Here are the facts;  without carbon dioxide there would be NO VEGETATION!!!  And without vegetation there would be no oxygen.  You see, Trees convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates during photosynthesis, releasing oxygen in the process.  It’s high school biology.  Here’s another fact; humans breath in oxygen and in the respiration process, we breath out, gasp, carbon dioxide.   Is the Obama administration now going to regulate and tax our lungs?

People, when are some of you going to wake the heck up and see what’s going on.  This whole nonsense of global warming has been nothing more than one giant hoax by the left designed to tax you more.  Is there any sane person out there who honestly believes that 40 years of data can determine whether or not the Earth is truly getting warmer when the Earth has been around for billions of years?  Has anyone notice that now that we’ve been experiencing global cooling, the radicals have now gone from “global warming” to using “climate change”.  Hello!!! Of course there’s going to be a change in the climate– there are many variables for this and the main one is the Sun.

Do not let these liberals, who have made billions, (Al Gore stand up), scaring you into believing that man has anything to do with changing the climate.  It is complete nonsense.  One volcano eruption emits more “pollutants” into the air than the United States has managed to emit throughout the last 100 years.   Just yesterday night, I read a report that’s being presented in Copenhagen that cows release more CO2 than all cars driven by man.  Does this mean we kill the cows?  Man would be arrogant to believe that we can control the climate of this planet.  God designed a unique world for us that works in perfect harmony with nature.  The Earth is a marvelous creation.

Wall Street Journal:

An “endangerment” finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way for the government to require businesses that emit carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases to make costly changes in machinery to reduce emissions — even if Congress doesn’t pass pending climate-change legislation. EPA action to regulate emissions could affect the U.S. economy more directly, and more quickly, than any global deal inked in the Danish capital, where no binding agreement is expected…

The vast majority of increased greenhouse-gas emissions is expected to come from developing countries such as China and India, not from rich countries like the U.S. But developing countries have made it clear that their willingness to reduce growth in emissions will depend on what rich countries do first. That puts a geopolitical spotlight on the U.S.

At the heart of the fight over whether U.S. emission constraints should come from the EPA or Congress is a high-stakes issue: which industries will have to foot the bill for a climate cleanup. A similar theme will play out in Copenhagen as rich countries wrangle over how much they should have to pay to help the developing world shift to cleaner technologies.

“There is no agreement without money,” says Rosário Bento Pais, a top climate negotiator for the European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm. “That is clear.” Full Story

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