Larry Elder and the Marx Brothers… Ends…

I will start out by saying that I am biased towards Larry Elder, especially since I don’t listen to either Doug McIntyre or Al Rantel, but I had heard the original debate between Elder and McIntyre a few times and I have to say that I wouldn’t want to waste my time listening to such a confused individual. Rantel, like McIntyre, is also delusional, and to hear about him asking Elder if he was proud that a black man has been elected President just dumbfounds me… And these two are supposed to be conservatives?

I have spent hours upon hours listening to Larry Elder, and while I disagree with his views on  issue relating to freedom of choice versus common decency and morality (for example, his take on the legalization of drugs), I do agree with his beliefs on the problems facing America, socially, politically, etc With reference to Doug McIntyre, I honestly have to say that if I spent the time I did listening to Elder and Mark Levin and then I heard all this garbage about “Darwinian Capitalism” and how “evil Wal-Mart and China are”, I would consider all that time spent a waste of my life. He claims to be a conservative, and then discusses how he voted for Obama and why… Excuse me, but what have you been smoking? What is in the water at KABC?

I bring this up now because the situation has finally ended. Larry Elder has announced he will be leaving KABC after this Friday’s broadcast. One has to wonder what the impact of these events had on his decision to give up his show at that station, and while I can understand wanting to pursue other things after 15 years of being on the air, it definitely hurts to see Elder leave in the midst of this. While there will be others we can listen to, I have to say “The Sage From South-Central” was definitely my favourite talk radio host…

Don’t let these losers bother you Elder, they refuse to understand what is going on, not just in America, but around the world. I have been to China, I spent a year teaching in Nantong, I have seen how they envy our way of life here in North America. They asked me questions about politics, voting, capitalism, etc wanting to know more about what we cherish here, something that obviously doesn’t seem to matter anymore to “faux-conservatives” and “drone Democrats”. I can tell you that I was in your corner well before this happened, and I will be in your corner again should you be attacked the same way at your next job. It is a shame to see you go, especially when these morons are still on the air…

No matter what you do from now on, your fans will still be here… Take care and good luck…

“Righteous Wind” or “Foul Odor”?; Scandal before even taking office

A “righteous wind”? As of now, it doesn’t feel that way… More like a “foul odor” to me…

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been indicted, along with his chief of staff John Harris, by the FBI on charges of corruption, including charges on conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and a count of solicitation of bribery. This all started when Blagojevich intended on “selling” Barack Obama’s seat in the Illinois Senate for political favours or money. Knowing full well he was being wiretapped, the governor still bragged about his intentions to an adviser, saying “(the seat) is a f****** valuable thing; you just don’t give it away for nothing”.

Now what does this have to do with Barack Obama? It is his seat to start with, and, according to various sources, Obama had promised Blagojevich political favours if he chose someone he wanted to fill his position in the Senate. According to David Axelrod himself, Barack’s campaign organizer, Blagojevich and Obama had been discussing replacements and “whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them”. Jack Tapper of ABC broke that story, but soon after it hit the press, Axelrod recanted his statement, saying that he “misspoke”. While Obama has corrected Axelrod, this isn’t the only person who let it slip that “The One” is far more involved in this mess than he would let on. Rahm Emmanuel, Obama’s chief or staff, let it slip that Barack and him advised Blagojevich during his run for governor. While he has retracted the statement, much like Axelrod did, it does appear that there is much more they aren’t telling us…

UPDATE: You didn’t speak with Blagojevich? Seems Obama has selective memory… It’s called photographic evidence, but of course it means nothing right? After all, if “The One” tells us this didn’t happen, then it must be “Photoshopped” or something right? Good catch Ed Morrissey!

In the midst of this, Jesse Jackson Jr has gone on record saying that he isn’t part of this investigation. According to Marc Ambinder from The Atlantic, Jackson is “Candidate Number 5″ (either him or Emil Jones Jr), the one discussed in the Blagojevich tapes.  It also appears that Jackson was one of the individuals offering the governor money for Obama’s Senate seat, and while he tries to distance himself from this mess, it does appear that he is now part of this evolving story. One wonders what this will mean for his father, but knowing Jackson Sr, he will probably spin this through his hatred of “the white man”…

UPDATE: Good news, Jesse Jackson Jr DID try and buy Obama’s Senate seat . It appears that his brother Jonathan Jackson and other “movers and shakers” in Chicago held a fundraiser for Blagojevich three days before his arrest. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has more on this story…

The more we learn about this story, the more people seem to be wrapped up in it. Harry Reid even gets to play his role, demanding Blagojevich not lose this Senate seat to a Republican. No matter what happens, this does seem to fly in the face of Barack’s promise of “hope and change”. Even now, the FBI has decided to open up an investigation into the Rezko-Obama land deal, causing even more problems for the President-Elect. One has to wonder whether or not “The One” will even make it to his inauguration, or whether he will be taking the oath of office in handcuffs. Michelle Malkin has a point, this does remind us of the Clinton years, but while we are comparing Bill Clinton’s time in office to this, let’s not forget that it wasn’t until his second term that the sex scandal broke. Seeing how Barack is already involved in this sort of activity before he even takes office, I wonder whether or not this is a new record for Presidential corruption.

No matter which way you look at this, even if you are a “nutroot”, this does smell awfully bad, especially from someone so many believed would change the dirty politics of Washington…

UPDATE: Is it just Rod or the entire Blagojevich clan? Patti, the governor’s wife, was heard on one of the FBI tapes swearing about the editors of the Tribune. She isn’t Laura Bush, she is a hateful, spiteful woman who let her anger get out of control. No matter what the MSM does, they can’t protect her public image from her own words… Tip of the hat to Michelle Malkin for this one…

UPDATE: Obama gives a press conference about his feelings with this situation. He is standing their with his seal of the President-Elect (and office which doesn’t exist), trying to spin the current situation by discussing the economic crisis he has done very little, if anything, to deal with. Allahpundit at Hot Air has more on this…

UPDATE: Seems Emmanuel might have had more to do with this then he let on. According to a Fox News reports, Rahm spoke with Blagojevich about the Senate seat on multiple occasions, discussing candidates Obama wanted to replace him. Ed Morrissey has more on this story… I guess this explains why he was using his children to keep from answering questions about this fiasco…

UPDATE: It just keeps getting better… Michelle Malkin is reporting on all the attention Rahm Emmanuel has been getting due to his connection to “Blago-gate”.  According to a report put out my Matthew Jaffe of ABC News,

(Emmanuel) won’t go to the Chicago presidential transition offices in order to avoid reporters trying to ask him whether he had contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich  about the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama’s election… Emanuel appeared “beet-red,” according to an ABC News cameraman who was invited inside by Emanuel to use his bathroom this morning

Beat red? HA, it is nice to see the camera is facing the right way this time around. With all the negative attention Sarah Palin had to put up with, you would think the Democrats could understand that it is their turn under the microscope.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey from Hot Air is reporting that Blagojevich has “lawyered up” and might resign by Monday. It is no surprise that he is being forced out, especially when Obama himself asked the governor to resign last week. One wonders when “The One” will be asking Emmanuel to resign once his full involvement is known…

With that said, I would also like to raise something Michelle Malkin AND Mark Levin discussed recently, the appointment of Carol Browner to Energy Czar. With all the problems Barack is having now, I don’t think it is wise to bring in another shady politician and give them a high ranking post in the new administration. Browner, as both Malkin and Levin have pointed out, gained infamy through the deletion of requested files when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was being sued by the Landmark Legal Foundation in 2001, a time when she was the EPA’s Administrator. One can only imagine what she had to do to weasel her way back into power…

I suspect that we will be in for four years of this; One Clintonite after another, coming out from the shadows demanding for payment for their support of Obama’s presidential bid. This isn’t simply “politics as usual”, this is politics as usual on STEROIDS… If it isn’t Browner’s file deletion, it is Emmanuel’s connection to Freddie-Mac…

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin is reporting that Carol Browner has now officially been appointed to the position of Energy Czar within the Obama administration… It just keeps getting worse…

Colour doesn’t matter to Democrats anymore; Cao beats Jefferson and no one cares

I would have to say that seeing Anh “Joseph” Cao defeat Bill “Cold Cash” Jefferson was the political highlight of my week. Watching the political mess in Ottawa become more confusing is upsetting me as a Canadian, especially since I thought this issue was resolved a few weeks ago, so it is nice to see that the Republican party isn’t dying like so many on the far-left keep claiming. Michelle Malkin has a post up on her blog about Cao victory, as well as Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey, but we only see token reports in the MSM about this.

MSNBC ran their story, Cao Defeats Jefferson in Congressional Race, the other day spending the majority of this article discussing Jefferson’s legal troubles,

According to CNN, Jefferson has pleaded not guilty to 16 criminal counts of racketeering, bribery, money laundering and obstruction of justice. He denies any wrongdoing… In 2005, Jefferson’s private homes in Washington and New Orleans were raided, and FBI agents say they found $90,000 in cash stashed in one of his freezers… Officials say the money was part of a payment in marked bills from an FBI informant in a transaction allegedly captured on videotape. Jefferson also is accused of soliciting and receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for himself and his family in exchange for promoting their products and services to countries in Africa, CNN reported.

We also saw the same treatment from CNN in their article, Indicted Louisiana Congressman Loses Re-Election Bid, only mentioning Cao very briefly at the beginning. Instead of discussing the impact of this man’s election on the ever changing face of politics in America, they give him only simple acknowledgment of his election win. While America and the rest of the world it seems has to swallow this garbage about Barack Obama breaking boundaries by being elected,many don’t want to even discuss the story of Anh Joseph Cao… Maybe it is because he isn’t the right “colour” or party…

If they won’t talk about him, then I will…

Anh “Joseph” Cao was born in 1975, right before the fall of Saigon. While his father was imprisoned in a North Vietnamese re-education camp for seven years, Joseph’s mother and siblings fled to the United States as refugees. After finishing school at Baylor University with a degree in physics, he became a Jesuit seminarian and then went on to Fordham University and received a degree in philosophy. While he originally was studying to be a Roman Catholic Priest, he went into law to help fellow church goers and Vietnamese citizens with their legal troubles. From there he joined Waltzer & Associates before leaving to start his own firm which specialized in immigration law. He only entered politics after the events of Hurricane Katrina, and now has become the first Vietnamese-American congressman.

Why couldn’t CNN or MSNBC discuss that?

As I have said previously, it seems if you aren’t black and a Democrat, you aren’t important, especially to the MSM. As Larry Elder has said numerous times, citing numerous black Republicans who have either been ignored or attacked, why not celebrate those like Colin Powell, Condilezza Rice and Clarence Thomas? Cao, while not fault of his own, has become the next “Uncle Tom” in the Republican party, an ethnic minority who they will criticize for being another “token” politician. I give it a few weeks before the Huffington Post and Daily Kos start calling him a “banana”…

A man who went from the fall of Saigon to political office in America should be the success story the Press fawns over, especially with the recent history between Vietnam and America. His election goes to show that even those who were seen as enemies can now be productive members of society if they want to be part of it… Not simply play the victim, using their race to get ahead… You won’t hear about Cao’s “yellowness”, that is for sure…