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The Hillinator: Badly damaged, and daily taking more hits, but not totally out of commission. It will not stop until it completes its mission or is totally destroyed in the process...

Giving Team Hillbillary hope is the potential for fallout from Obama’s association with Tony Rezko scandal. And this week Obama has been put on the defensive over controversial remarks made by Jeremiah A. Wright, Reverend of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Obama has attended Trinity United for twenty years; Wright married Barack and Michelle Obama and christened the Obama’s daughters.  

Obama has been particularly weak in his attempts to explain his ongoing association with Wright who, among other things has:

·        Blamed the US government for creating the AIDS virus, which was ostensibly developed to kill blacks.

·        Asserted that 9/11 was America’s comeuppance for US foreign policy.

·        Suggested that American blacks should not sing “God Bless America”, but instead should sing “God D*mn America”.

Check out Ronald Kessler’s Op-Ed piece in today’s Opinion Journal for more on Wright and his pal Louis Farrakhan. 

Obama has mildly criticized Wright’s remarks, though his denunciation seems somewhat insincere. Obama compared Wright to “an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with."

Relative or no, it is a pretty safe bet that many Americans, me among them, would head for the door the first time they heard anyone spouting racist or anti-American rhetoric. And, as others have pointed out, one may not be able to choose his uncle, but one can choose his friends; or his minister. Obama had a choice, yet he stayed….for twenty years. 

And Wright remains an advisor and “sounding board” to Obama.

In religion as in politics, leadership is about saying and doing things that resonate with the constituency. Essentially, we tend to follow and support people whose values we share. I wonder which part of Wright’s racist, divisive teachings so strongly resonate with Barack Obama (the great uniter) that he has stayed with the church for more than two decades….

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Just wondering: How does Barack Obama’s mother, a white woman, feel about her son’s willingness to remain close to a man who has spent so much time and energy attacking whites?

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported earlier this week that this year’s average winter temperatures are two-tenths of one degree above the average for the twentieth century. Yet this year’s temps are the lowest since 2001.

The report also noted “record Northern Hemisphere snow cover in January and above-average snow cover in February”.   

Television’s “big three”, ABC, CBS and NBC, have remained very quiet about the NOAA report. Does this merely reflect the big three’s lack of interest in global warming?

According to a recent study by BMI:

Over the last 6 months of 2007, the big three did 205 stories on global warming.

On the three networks, 80 percent of stories (167 out of 205) didn’t mention skepticism or anyone at all who dissented from global warming alarmism. CBS did the absolute worst job. Ninety-seven percent of its stories (34 out of 35) ignored other opinions. Williams’ own network, NBC, came in a close second with 85 percent (76 out of 89) excluding skepticism. ABC was the most balanced network, but still censored dissent from 64 percent of its stories (34 out of 53).

(P)eople with alternative views barely got face time on the networks. Instead, they received insults and hostile questions.

Journalists also called skeptics “deniers,” conjuring images of Holocaust deniers, and cast them as flat-earthers – ironically forgetting that there was once a scientific consensus that the earth was flat.

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Speaking of MSM bias, Newsbusters reports that it took awhile for the big three to get around to mentioning that Eliott Spitzer is a Dim:

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, substitute NBC Nightly News anchor Ann Curry and reporter Mike Taibbi failed to identify disgraced outgoing New York Governor Eliot Spitzer as a Democrat, but on Thursday night Curry finally informed NBC viewers of the party affiliation -- a fact network journalists always consider relevant when a Republican gets caught in scandalous behavior.  SNIP

For the record, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric cited Spitzer's party on Monday and Wednesday nights while ABC's World News didn't until Wednesday evening.

The morning shows have completely blacked out the fact Spitzer is a Democrat.   END EXCERPT

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For what it's worth: The same media suppressing dissent about global warming, and dragging its heels in citing Eliot Spitzer’s political affiliation is the same MSM covering Barack Obama…

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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has admitted that he has been involved in a prostitution ring. This is the same man who when he was attorney general went after the prostitution rings. So apparently for not giving him good service . . . Jay Leno

If Gov. Spitzer resigns over his prostitution scandal, he will reportedly go into private practice as a lawyer. When asked why he wanted to practice law again, Spitzer said, “I like businesses where you charge by the hour and screw your clients."  Conan O’Brien

Earlier today, the governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, resigned. In his resignation speech he said, "To whom much has been given, much is expected." Which is the same thing he said to that $5,000-an-hour hooker.  Jay Leno

Political experts say that before the scandal, Hillary Clinton had considered him for a possible running mate. Now, Hillary is considering Spitzer as a possible husband. Conan O’Brien

Stay red…