Quick Post: Wild Bill on the ‘Occupy’ Protests

Here’s a video from Will Bill for America. It’s not a long video, but Bill point out something myself and others have missed.

It’s not simply hatred of the capitalist system that drives these protesters, it’s their own greed. Whether it’s money taken from the holdings of large corporations or from our wallets, they want whatever they can get their hands on. Simply put, thievery is their political philosophy.

As Bill said, the problem with this kind of greed is that it leads to violence. We’ve already seen that the ‘Occupy’ protesters aren’t afraid to attack police, so how long will it be before they start getting violent with the rest of us? It might come to that soon…

Have They Showered Yet? ‘Occupy’ Comes to Ottawa

Found this pinned to an announcement board at Carleton University. Thank God for the horrible weather we’ve been having lately eh?

What’s puzzling about these ‘Occupy’ groups is that they really have no reason to come to Canada. The protests around the United States don’t even have a coherent message, so what’s the reason for starting protests here? We just had two elections recently, one federal and one provincial, so what’s this nonsense about “we will no longer remain silent.” If you voted, you weren’t “silent,” your political desires were heard. Like it or not, that’s how our political system works.

What’s clear is that Ottawa is going to have to be ready for, not only unsafe and unsanitary conditions (hat-tip Hot Air’s Allahpundit) in and around Confederation Park, but also violence. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air posted about today’s violence at the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstration. After refusing to temporarily leave Zuccotti Park so that it could be cleaned, protesters celebrated their victory against sanitation by attacking police officers. Here’s the story from CBS New York.

Shortly after protesters learned they’d be able to stay in Zuccotti Park indefinitely, violence broke out Friday morning as a group marched away from it.

Demonstrators clashed with officers while marching to Wall Street’s landmark Bull. Police said arrests — of which there were more than a dozen — were mainly for blocking traffic. Protesters chanted “The whole world is watching” during the arrests…

Does this really surprise anyone? This isn’t the first incident of violence we have seen so far, and I’m positive it won’t be the last.

In any event, residents of Ottawa will have to prepare themselves for the presence of an unruly mob for at least the next few weeks. One can only hope that the weather will be bad enough that even with the kind of funding the other ‘Occupy’ protests have been receiving (you didn’t really think this was an actual “grassroots movement” did you?), they won’t be occupying Confederation Park for long.

UPDATE: Thanks goes to MrAdBaculum for this video of a Marxist-Leninist at the ‘Occupy Ottawa’ protest not only defending Muammar Gaddafi but calling for the destruction of Israel (hat-tip Blazing Cat Fur).

Did anyone else find his anti-Israel/anti-semitic comments just a bit too much to stomach? Blaming the Jews for the world’s problems is one thing, it’s fairly common on the far-left, but calling for the destruction of the state of Israel really crosses the line.

He’s not the only one with these belief though. In fact anti-semitism seems to be a common theme at these ‘Occupy’ protests. Here’s a video from Reason TV of a Los Angeles Unified School District worker doing her best impression of Adolf Hitler.

Zombie at the PJ Tatler has many more examples of anti-semitism from the ‘Occupy Los Angeles’ protest for those who believe these displays of Jew-hatred are just isolated incidents.

One has to wonder how long it will be before the media reports on this. Will it be before or after these protesters express their Jew-hatred through violence? Pathetic…

McGinniss Exposed: Author Knew Claims Lacked Proof

I had written previously about Joe McGinniss’ latest book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, and I clearly stated that I didn’t believe any of these claims he made concerning Palin and her family. These accusations were beyond outrageous, so much so that even Janet Maslin of the New York Times said they were “caustic, unsubstantiated gossip.” It wasn’t simply the New York Times, however, that thoughts this. As Andrew Breitbart himself, posting at BigJournalism.com, discovered, Random House, the publisher of McGinniss’ book, had issues with a number of the accusations. In fact, Random House’s lawyers told McGinniss that he provided nothing more than “tawdry gossip” to substantiate “any of the salacious stories about the Palin family.”

This story first broke when Breitbart posted an e-mail from Joe McGinniss to Jesse Griffin, the owner and operator of a now defunked anti-Palin blog, asking for any evidence he has concerning these unsupported allegations.

From: Joe McGinniss
To: Jesse Griffin
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 6:15 PM
Subject: I have to ask you for help

Jesse–

Legal review of my manuscript is underway and here’s my problem: no one has ever offered documentation of any of the lurid stories about the Palins. Shailey Tripp is the latest example.

APD and Sarah have denied that Todd had any involvement with her. To my knowledge, no one has provided any evidence that he did. TheEnquirer cites AlaskaWTF, which in turn cites the Enquirer: what good is that? I’m also told that the Enquirer is preparing to back off this story and save face by denouncing Ms. Tripp as an unreliable source who promised documentation she couldn’t provide.

She may be mentally unstable and prone to fabrication, delusion, or both. Her joint may be called Blue Hands Massage (brrrrr!), but she’s no Monica Lewinsky with a blue dress with a semen stain, that’s for sure.

Do you believe that Todd paid her for sex? If so, why do you believe that, other than that you wish it were true?

A lurid, sensational, defamatory story about Todd, based only on the account of a woman charged with prostitution, who is no doubt desperate for money, and who sold her story to the Enquirer, is a gift from heaven for Sarah.

Jesse, you can ridicule Sarah for calling in to the execrable Bob & Mark, but the fact is that as far as this story goes, there’s no there there. And rumors about what might come in weeks ahead are not facts. In fact, they’re garbage.

I’ve neither seen nor heard anything that indicates that Ms. Tripp’s story has any basis in fact. None of the endless crap Patrick posted about her before getting the boot from palingates.com offers any substantiation.

And even you write frequently that you know things you can’t yet post, but that soon “all will be revealed.” This has been going on since I first became aware of your blog, but as far as I know you haven’t substantiated a single claim or provided verification for a single rumor that you’ve posted about Sarah’s personal life, or the personal lives of any Palin family members. Thus, she gets to denounce what she calls “lies.”

Neither from you, the Enquirer, AlaskaWTF, palingates.com or anyone else, have I seen a credible, identified source backing any of the salacious stories about the Palin family.

Thus–as Random House lawyers are already pointing out to me–nothing I can cite other than my own reporting rises above the level of tawdry gossip. The proof is always just around the corner, but that’s a corner nobody has been able to turn. Maybe Jeff Dunn has, in which case I’ll be the first to congratulate him. But frankly, at this point, I’m tired of it, and I’ve run out of time.

No one has ever provided factual evidence that:

a) Todd had sex with a hooker, or with anyone else outside his marriage.

b) Sarah had an affair with Brad Hanson, or anyone else.

c) Track was a druggie who enlisted in the army to avoid a jail term. Or that he vandalized Wasilla school buses.

d) Willow was involved in the vandalism of the empty house in Meadow Lakes. Or that Sarah rushed back from Hawaii to put the lid on that.

e) Trig is not Sarah’s natural born child.

f) Bristol was promiscuous as a high schooler and drank and used drugs, or became pregnant again after Tripp’s birth.

Jesse, you were going on and on about Bristol being pregnant while doing Dancing With The Stars. And, if I recall correctly, at the time of her brief glossy-magazine-payday “reunion” with Levi, you surmised that she was pregnant by Ben Barber, or at least by someone who wasn’t Levi. You’ve recently suggested she’s had an abortion, publishing photographs that show her chubby then and thin now. But doesn’t that seem a little “thin” to you, based on nothing besides magazine pictures?

So much has bubbled at the salacious rumor stage for more than two years, but no one has been able to take even one story further.

Jesse, if you can put me in touch with people who are willing and able to substantiate any of the above, now is the time to do so. Otherwise, I hope you won’t complain that there are no startling new revelations in my book. My publisher and I think it’s damning enough without airing the family’s dirty laundry, but because Sarah’s hypocrisy about her family is one of the things that galls me most, I’d like to be able to publish facts in regard to a) through f) above, but I emphasize facts.

Not malicious speculation or third-hand rumors relayed by those who hold a grudge.

For any or all of those who’ve told you they’ll speak out, but not yet, now is the time. My book represents the last best chance to put the truth about Sarah in front of the American people in a documented, verifiable way. But I need facts that I can rely on. I didn’t live this long and work this hard over so many decades to wind up as AlaskaWTF between hard covers.

as always, and looking forward to seeing you in spring or summer,
Joe

Breitbart’s has a second post up on this subject, which I recommend that my modest readership give it a look as it examines the unsupported allegations themselves.

Given this, it’s clear that McGinniss’ book is nothing but a collection of conspiracy theories and baseless smears that he knew he couldn’t support with evidence. The question Breitbart and others are now raising is whether or not Random House itself knew that much of this book, by the author’s own admission, lacks even the slightest bit of factual evidence. Seeing that the publisher’s lawyers raised these complaints with McGinniss during their legal review of it, as stated in the e-mail, it seems they did.

Suffice to say, this is not only bad news for Joe McGinniss, but for Random House itself. Despite warnings from their own legal staff, the publisher has damaged its credibility by publishing McGinniss’ The Rogue, as well as setting itself up for a very public and very costly lawsuit. McGinniss himself has destroyed whatever credibility he has left, and I doubt any publisher will want to print anything he’s written from this point on. I would imagine that he would have trouble finding work with the tabloids after this debacle. That would be a fitting punishment for a such a deranged and dishonest individual.

A Coren Clip: Michael on NDP Candidate Anthony Marco’s Anti-Christian Comments

With the death of Jack Layton, it is becoming quite clear that the New Democratic Party (NDP) is slipping, even at the provincial level. Jack wouldn’t think that he could make comments like those made by the NDP’s candidate for Niagara West-Glanbrook, Anthony Marco, and not spark outrage. What’s even worse is that Marco continues to defend his comments, unable to realize the political damage he is doing to his campaign by not apologizing for and quickly distancing himself from them. Here is Michael Coren starting last night’s episode of ‘The Arena’ by addressing these comments (hat-tip Blazing Cat Fur).

It should be noted that Marco also drew parallels between religious beliefs and Nazi Germany during the podcasts in question.

…But there are a couple that I would suggest burning, and it’s not even from an ideological perspective. Like ‘oh, burn stuff by Adolph Hitler …’ Whatever. If you want to read that stuff, read that stuff. For some people, the old politics of Nazi Germany might be their religion. And just as I can’t condemn other people’s religion, I can’t, I don’t agree with them, but you can’t stop somebody from believing in something. And to bash your head against the wall trying, is not their fault, it’s your fault. You’re the one who is pretty messed up if you’re going to devote your entire life to trying to convince somebody not to believe what they believe…

Despite what his supporters say, Marco is neither brave nor intelligent for making such statements. Insulting those who believe in God isn’t bravery, it’s socially fashionable. Canada is a far cry from the any Middle East country where such comments would lead to imprisonment and death. In fact, when you consider the context of his comments, it displays outright cowardice because Marco clearly states that he couldn’t condemn someone who followed the teachings similar to those of Nazi Germany. A modern day Neville Chamberlain? Urgh…

As for intelligent, where to start? The differences between Catholicism and Protestantism are far deeper than the differences between Coca-Cola and Pepsi. This isn’t brand loyalty, it’s a matter spirituality and the meaning of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Last time I checked, there wasn’t political and social upheaval with the release of New Coke, as there was with the Protestant Reformation. Aside from that, Marco brags about not being molested during his time as a Catholic. I’m a Catholic as well, so is my entire family, and none of us have been molested either. In fact, as Newsmax’s Jon E. Dougherty wrote previously, you’re safer with a Catholic priest than you are with a public school teacher (hat-tip James Hudnall from Andrew Breibart’s Big Journalism). A national survey for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2000, which examined incidents from 1991-2000, estimated that roughly 290,000 students had been physically sexually abused by their teachers. Considering there have been approximately 11,000 cases of abuse by about 4,000 priests and deacons since 1950, you’re a far more likely to be molested at school than you are in a Catholic Church. I wonder why we don’t see Marco bragging about getting through primary and secondary school without being molested?

Anthony Marco’s comments weren’t simply offensive, they were ignorant and, considering that he continues to defend them during a political campaign, downright stupid. Aside from costing him any chance he had of being elected, Marco demonstrates his lack of intelligence, as Michael Coren clearly pointed out. In fact, when you consider the recent political missteps made by the NDP, most notably Libby Davies’ effort to eliminate the 10-year residency requirement to qualify for old age pension benefits, this incident highlights the mental deficiencies of those now running the NDP, especially since Andrea Horwath, the leader of the Ontario NDP, hand picked Marco for the Niagara West-Glanbrook riding. Once again, Jack Layton wouldn’t have made these kinds of mistakes. Pathetic…

UPDATE: As soon as I finish this post, I find this story from the Ontario Liberal Party’s Newswire.ca site concerning recent comments made by Anthony Marco on his blog, lovehatethings.com.

…In one posting titled The Real Reason, Marco takes a shot at all Ontarians, calling them lazy: “The real reason the economy is so messed up is because we’re lazy.” (The Real Reason blog post, lovehatethings.com, undated)

In a podcast, Marco says Canadians are just pretending to be polite: “Foreigners often call us polite but really we’re just making fun of you behind your back so we don’t hurt your feelings.” (Anthony Marco, Podcast 95, 2:25, lovehatethings.com)

When discussing a made-up game show concept, Marco discloses what he thinks tourists do in Thailand: “…and the winner gets a trip to Thailand where they get to engage in one of the great Thai pastimes, auto-erotic asphyxiation.” (Anthony Marco, Podcast 98, 9:00, lovehatethings.com)

On the importance of voting, Marco says: “If you’ve never found cause to drag your ass off your couch to get to a polling station and cast a ballot, I’m going to be the last one to criticize because I’ve been there and my couch has the indentation to prove it. My last word on the elections is that I hate the electoral process…” (Anthony Marco, Podcast 17, lovehatethings.com)…

If I were Andrea Horwath, I would have already dismissed Marco over his previous comments. The longer she waits, the more damaging these comments will be to not only her campaign, but the campaigns of other NDP candidates. Simply put, Marco’s a serious liability and must be dealt with as such.

Joe McGinniss’ Derangement: Defending Sarah Palin From Joe’s Smears

I first heard of this story from Kyle Drennen at NewsBusters.org. NBC’s Savannah Guthrie interviewed Joe McGinniss on NBC’s ‘Today’ about his upcoming book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, touting it as “bombshell book” that raises questions like “Is she really the hockey mom she claims to be? How strong is her marriage to Todd?” and “Does she use her children as props?” After an intro like that, the audience expects “stunning allegations” instead of the same old conspiracy theories and baseless smears put forward by Palin’s detractors since the 2008. Sadly, they would be getting more or less the latter.

I find it hard to believe that anyone couldn’t predict that McGinniss’ book would be nothing more than a hit piece. By bring McGinniss on ‘Today’, Guthrie gives this “man” (if you can even call him that), who’s obviously suffering from the later stages of “Palin Derangement Syndrome,” undo credibility. I think Bob and Mark of ‘The Bob and Mark Show’ on KWHL 106.5 described McGinniss best (hat-tip uffdamega52).

What’s interesting about this book, however, is that it’s not being universally praised by those on the left. Janet Maslin of the New York Times wrote a scathing review of McGinniss’ book, stating that,

…Although most of “The Rogue” is dated, petty and easily available to anyone with Internet access, Mr. McGinniss used his time in Alaska to chase caustic, unsubstantiated gossip about the Palins, often from unnamed sources like “one resident” and “a friend”…

It speaks volumes when someone from McGinniss’ political camp is this critical.

The problem with the lies peddled by those like McGinniss is that no matter what the truth is, unless they’re exposed as malicious and unsupported tripe, ill-informed people will accept them as truth. Already we are seeing the blogosphere a buzz with discussions of these smears as if they were fact. Why not spend a few minutes considering whether or not these accusations sound reasonable? Does anyone really believe that Palin was a drug user in her youth? That she was sexually promiscuous?

We’ve been following Palin since she was picked by John McCain to be his Vice Presidential nominee, when reporters rushed to Wasilla, Alaska to find whatever they could to paint her in a negative light, and after that when they went through boxes upon boxes of e-mails from Palin’s time as Alaska’s governor to find anything they could to do finally destroy her politically, and nothing has emerged that supports any of these accusations. Considering the thorough vetting Palin received, why should we believe that one writer with a grudge against Palin and her family found what hundreds of journalists and bloggers couldn’t? Why should these accusations be believed when even hyperpartisan publications like the New York Times have called McGinniss’ book “caustic, unsubstantiated gossip”?

I could spend hours scouring the internet for evidence of Sarah Palin’s evidence, but I doubt that even that would change the minds of those who desperately wish to believe that these accusations aren’t the same old conspiracy theories and baseless smears that have been pushed by Palin’s detractors for years. Joe McGinniss’ The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin is “Palin Derangement Syndrome” made into a book, the worst kind of tabloid journalism which is receiving harsh criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. Pathetic…