Dispatch from Future of Journalism Summit / NetRoots Nation foray – Van Jones Book Signing Part 2

Well, of COURSE I bought the book as well.  Why not?  Now, some might say “Hey, you’re funding the enemy!”  Yeah, a few shekels will make it into Van Jones’s wallet.  But I also read Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals for TWO specific reasons:

  • Sun-Tze: know your enemy
  • I almost got Alinsky’d before I knew what it was (Hey, Zandra Rice-Hawkins -> #FAIL)

I have no intention of allowing myself to get “Jones’d” in the future; as my high school Principal said over and over and over (again) over the loudspeaker for the morning greeting: forewarned is forearmed (and in politics, that last word has multiple definitions).  He’s a major player in this engagement  between philosophies – and make NO mistake, we have been in a philosophical war here in the US for quite some time. His is an ideology, shared by much of the White House denizens and President Obam.  It is one that is an outlook that is more communism than individualistic, more Marx than Founding Fathers. In fact, I think it could be safe to say, as was discussed a lot at the Future of Journalism Summit dinners, workshops, and informal gatherings, that this struggle we are in IS a Cold Civil War.  Just was with the war with Communism (which, being between nation-states, did have a few “hot” proxy wars – more on this later.

In the mean time, here’s video of me getting the book signed:

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Live (Probably) From the HCRC Flag Day Picnic [Updated]

[Update 2] Still…nothing works, well–my laptop works. But we’ve got video. [Update] Nothing works…but I’m still trying to make it happen. Well….This is something of an experiment.   Let’s call it GrokTalk channel 2.  And if it works we’ll be Starting at 11:45 (ish). We will attempt to broadcast audio only today from the Hillsborough County … Read more

Dispatch from Future of Journalism Summit – NetRoots Nation foray – Brietbart’s Dana Loesch “WI: How are the grassroots going to cope now?”

Am at the Future of Journalism Summit in Providence, RI that is being sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and the Franklin Center (full disclosure – they are picking up my hotel charges).  Since I arrived early, I had the chance to invite myself to a group of Conservative bloggers that were head over to the Providence Conference Center to visit the NetRoots Nation gathering to do a bit of video reporting.  Actually, all I did was tail them with a camera in case something “happened” (er, nothing much – no confrontations).

This video is from a NetRoots Nation panel and Breitbart.com’s Dana Loesch had the chance to ask a question at the end of the panel’s talks:

“With rapidly decreasing Public Employee Union membership & 36% of union households voting to retain Scott Walker as WI Governor, what is the Union Leadership & grassroots response and how will they cope going forward?”

I lent my FlipCam to another Conservative blogger and she took another video of Dana’s question (after the jump, slightly better audio):

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Dispatch from Future of Journalism Summit – NetRoots Nation foray – GatewayPundit Jim Hoft “How will the dropping enthusiasm from WI affect the Nov. election?”

At the same time that Dana Loesch was asking her question, Samsphere blogger buddy Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit)  also got in line “within the belly of the beast” to ask his question.  Abbreviated, I’m sure, as the panel’s time slot was already overlong.  His question: “The high enthusiasm level at the start of the recall … Read more

Priorities

How do you show your empathy for the people living under your yoke?  Get rich bastards™ (Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour) and clueless celebrities–rich bastards™ (Sarah Jessica Parker)–to pimp your ‘Middle Class street cred’ while you run off to six fundraisers on the day the crappy job numbers come out. Isn’t Obama’s Super PAC called Priorities … Read more

U.N. Me

U.N Me is a documentary about the U.N.  available in Theaters and V.O.D. (I’ll let the trailer speak for itself.)

Could Hating the Yankees Take A Back Seat to This?

Red Sox fans don’t care for the New York Yankees.  Yankees fans think it is because the Yankees are so dominating.  I think it is because of Yankees fans, but that’s just me.  I don’t hate either of them, but I find the arrogance a bit distracting and have no problem rooting for their opponents … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Josh Youssef for NH State Senate. Question 4: Devolvement of power back to the local level from Concord? And unfunded mandates?

To a large degree, the voters kicked out the extreme spending Democrats in 2010 and decided that Republicans would be better at governing the State.  Part of what the Republicans have done is to try to return power, that the Democrats gathered into Concord, back to local communities.  I asked Josh about his stance on … Read more

The ‘Bain’ Of Green Boondoggles

Following Skip, who followed me, here is White House Propaganda Minister Jay Carney attempting to articulate the differences between private venture capitalism (Romney/Bain/private money/80% success) and Green Venture Corporatism (Obama/Cronyism/ Public money/ Billions lost for nothing). From Allahpundit c/o Hot Air For one thing, Bain evidently did due diligence on the companies it bought instead … Read more

Planned Parenthood – Gendercide? Yeah, We Can Do That. [Updated]

The process of moving the culture to the left continues apace.   A recent undercover video reveals that Planned non-Parenthood (PP) is willing and able to engage in the lefts long love affair with eugenics.  That is, to use whatever resources are at its disposal to craft the genetic make up of future generations.

Eugenics was the prime motivation for Margret Sanger (PP founder) to hand out contraception to those she deemed inferior; poor, minorities, etc.  She wanted to control and craft the master race by the systematic reduction of any gene pool deemed a danger to the coming socialist utopia.  (Ethnic cleansing, and the Holocaust are the most extreme examples of what Sanger hoped to achieve without the killing.)  So this is not a new idea, but just how far down the lefts  eugenics path have we traveled in America?

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Coolest President Ever?

Not Obama, Lord no.  147 years after his presidency he’ll be lucky if there’s any mention of him beyond his being the first black president (After Clinton, of course. That and, perhaps, almost doubling the deficit in three years.)  I am referring to Abraham Lincoln, whose “past” has taken a turn toward the macabre in … Read more

RightOnline 2012

Tim, Mike, Rick, and Steve (yes, me) will be heading out to RightOnline in Vegas in just a few weeks.  Here’s a little primer–clips from 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wL5kOxMdh74 Note from Skip: I had been expecting to go as well but I was told by my boss that I should be going to San Diego for a … Read more

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