To all our faithful followers, we bring you our second podcast. We hope you enjoy it and please feel free to comment.

by zombieshootout

When Obama appears on television, it isn’t to deliver a message. He is the message.

Since taking office President Barack Obama has been on television 78 times, including speeches, national addresses, congressional hearings, talk shows, news interviews and public service announcements (not including repeat events in syndication or in commercials).  

During the same period of time, George W. Bush appeared on television (using the same metrics) 18 times, Bill Clinton appeared 6 times.

Quite frankly, the man is watching his own ratings. I truly feel that President Obama is addicted to his own popularity. It’s an easy observation. President Obama is watching us react to his television spots. Since Obama has no executive leadership record, no record of making things happen, he forever returns to the one thing that has defined his brief career, talking. 

I have never seen an American President “need” to be on televison as much as Obama.  However, were it simply a matter of appearing on television “a lot”, it could be dismissed as ego. But it is much more than ego. Before we get to that, here’s a little more data.

According to Neilson Media research, When Obama gave his Health Care Address to Congress, an impressive 52 million viewers watched. However, Neilson ratings also show a considerable reduction in viewers with each subsequent national address. Translation: Overexposure results in fewer viewers.

By contrast, when President George W. Bush gave his first Congressional Address, he had a respectable 39 million viewers. Obama knows that President Bush struggled in the polls during his second term in office, and he will stop at nothing until he has reached a higher replay value. Even despite a growing lethargy in viewership, President Obama appears to want, through shear force of will, to defy quantitative analysis, to retain his “star power” by doing the one thing he has proven exceptional at: talking.  

So why is this important?

As support for the Liberal agenda and President Obama continues to shrink we get hit harder with a never ending “Obamamercial”. It may be an address to the troops, a bill signing, anything so long as he is on television.  At the current rate he could reach 100 television appearances in his first year.  Add repeats, commercials and syndication and you have “All Obama, All the Time”, like Big Brother in George Orwell’s classic “1984″, where the reassuring, parental voice of the great leader forever echoes out of every television, inescapably.

I get the feeling that an “Uber-Orwellian” society is about to slap us so hard in the face that we dare not blink. Imagine seeing Obama’s face on every television channel, and hearing his voice on every radio station, as often as you see or hear campaign ads in the fall, but in this case it’s just one personality, the over-produced, highly-stylized, dear Leader. Sound far-fetched? Wait. There’s more. 

Now consider White House Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd and his desire for the FCC to have more control over broadcast content. Mark Lloyd is on record extolling Hugo Chavez’s masterful control over the media.

But wait, there’s more. Consider the many videos that have surfaced showing public school children signing songs to our great leader, the recent discovery that the White House is encouraging the National Endowment for the Arts to assist in Obama’s efforts to “fundamentally transform America” by creating artwork that is fawning of  Obama’s agenda, the tightly coordinated assault on FOX news (for daring to challenge his agenda) and, finally, an apple-polishing mass media that is so pro-Obama it may as well be an extension of the White House, and you can see how different the game is being played.

Think exponentially. Control is key, and total control is his goal. Build massive support through a never ending campaign, utilize the NEA, condone through silence teachers spending time teaching young children to memorize songs whose lyrics contain campaign slogans, launch a public battle against any part of the media that dares to disagree, and you realize this president is not interested in a vibrant exchange of ideas, but squelching every message but his own. 

Take away the divisions of which party we are in, voters need to know President Obama’s true agenda. 

Keep your eyes and ears sharp my conservative and libertarian friends. We the People need to separate fact from fiction. We the People need to push back each time President Obama attempts to eliminate discussion or dominate through presidential resources.

If you’re not already involved, here are two handbooks than can help: How to become an Activist for America  and Rules for Revolutionaries , both by Lady Libertas. 

WE NEED EVERYONE IN THIS TOGETHER!

As I write these words there are three key political races in play: New Jersey, Virgina and New York.

In the former, Republican Chris Christie is in a tight, fluid battle against deeply entrenched, heavily-monied Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine for the governor’s seat. New Jersey boasts the highest taxes in the country and Christie has been quoted saying he’ll run like a one-term Governor. His campaign has built a strong beachhead despite Corine bringing in such big guns as Obama and former President Bill Clinton.

In Virgina Republican Bob McDonnell has a healthy double-digit lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds, also for the governor’s seat. Virginia was a swing-state for Obama in the presidential election, and if it turns back to a red state it would obviously be a rejection of Obama; this in only ten months.

Finally, a fascinating race in New York has garnered national attention, where long-shot Independent and true Conservative Doug Hoffman has received an emphatic bump in the polls due to recent high profile endorsements from Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Fred Thompson and others, in his bid to claim  New York’s coveted 23rd district Congressional seat.

So why are these races so important? For one thing, they measure the political pulse of voters just ten months after Obama’s presidential win. All three races, and Virginia in particular, are a referendum on Obama and strong evidence toward a resurgence in conservatism.

Take the NY race in which Independent Doug Hoffman is gaining tremendous favor in the polls, while the Republican-endorsed Dede Scozzafava is dropping fast in approval. Scozzafava is beyond a RINO; she is quite literally a liberal. Republican voters are thirsty for genuine hope and change, and are not impressed with Dede Scozzafava  just because she has an “R” in front of her name.

The New York race should be viewed as a battle cry from Republican voters to the GOP that they better get their house in order; voters want meaningful choices, not the same old same old.

For those who follow politics only peripherally, consider it this way: If Obama’s performance on the national stage was uniformly considered exceptional, none of these races would be close. Voters would be continuing their zeal over the election of Obama. But this is not happening.

At this snapshot moment in time, I can say with confidence that Bob McDonnell will take Virgina, and that is big! If Christie takes New Jersey that will be definitive proof that conservatism is on the assent. As for New York, the rejection of a fake Republican, despite the outcome, demonstrates Republican voters want viable, strong conservative candidates.

The Obama administration has already begun a whisper campaign denouncing Creigh Deeds in Virginia for not better utilizing Obama’s personal assistance. They are quite literally throwing one of their own under the bus even before the election has taken place. There are a lot of people now residing under that proverbial bus.

Take heart dear reader. This is only a prelude of many more important races coming in 2010. Each Republican/Conservative win further shifts the balance of power in the House of Representatives, which is extremely important.

If you consider that the Democrats are struggling with passing legislation now, where they have majorities as far as the eye can see, imagine how much more difficulty they’ll encounter when some of their seats are replaced with responsible, pragmatic Republicans who respect small businesses, dislike an over-reaching government, and believe in and revere the words of the Constitution.

Strive on Patriots! Get involved. Follow the races and do what you can to bring REAL Hope and Change back to the USA!

Hi everyone!

We have finally completed our first podcast and here it is. We hope you enjoy it and we look forward to your comments, criticisms and suggestions.

It is no coincidence that the recent White House attack on Fox news came when it did. Fox’s aggressive investigations have resulted in the ACORN exclusive, the Van Jones exclusive, and their consistent coverage of the summer Tea Parties was simply too much; dominating cable news as they do, there was simply no one out there who could marginalize them.

Not since Nixon’s “enemies list” has an administration sought to demonize or otherwise attack in such a manner. It demeans the office and ultimately just makes Fox news stronger.

It should be noted that President Obama, who campaigned on a post-partisan line of cooperative politics, has created an enemy at each turn of his legislative agenda. Wall Street, doctors, high-earning small businesses, banks, insurance companies, the list grows daily. I cannot recall any president in my lifetime who so openly and actively made every issue an “us against them” ultimatum. It’s petty.

On the bright side, is was heartening to see today the other television news oulets stick up for Fox when a brief attempt was made to prevent Fox news from interviewing Tresury Department Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg. Fox got the interview and the brief scuffle allowed the non-Fox-viewing public a stronger glimse into this petty battle.

Now that Obama has been in office for ten months, the public is seeing, in many ways and on many levels, that he is clearly not the man who campagined on high ideals and a moral path to political conflict resolution. Instead he continues to reveal himself as a radical, by the people he surrounds himself with, the activist manner in which he tries to gather support and his prediliction for picking fights and finding an enemy, often a straw man.

Finally, the attack against Fox news and the subsequent support lent by other media may reflect a turning point in the biased, pro-Obama coverage we’ve seen to date. It just may be that, thanks to Major Garret, Jake Tapper, and a few others, more journalists will rediscover their job description is journalist, not transcriptionist.

Time will tell.