Cross-posted by MsUnderestimated.

This has to be what can only be deemed as rounds #2, 3, 4 & 5 of the WWF of the political world. Cynthia is trying so hard to keep her belt, but it’s getting harder and harder. However, I wasn’t sure Hank was going to make it. Was he coughing to disrupt the cutest little jihadist in Congress as she spewed her blather from the inside of the skull-tightening braids on her head? Or did her hot air scorch the air around them both so bad that he couldn’t breathe? Don’t know. Neither one impressed me very much, but even as his incompetence is so profoundly displayed, the “lesser of two evils” argument needs to be thrown out of the window this time.

I don’t live in that district, but what I wouldn’t give to live there for just one day next Tuesday in November to vote for the Republican – whomever he/she may be – to keep either of these less-than-brainiacs out of the Georgia Congress. That being said, Georgia’s 4th District is and always has been Democratically controlled. Given that, I hope that the voters of that district “get out the vote” next Tuesday for Hank Johnson. Hank doesn’t look like someone who would smack a police officer who was just doing his job on Capitol Hill.

For round #1, see my previous post here. These new rounds, however, are TKOs by the moderators of the debate. I’m not sure either opponent won this one.

“The fact of the matter is….” (watch the videos to understand that oft-used opening to McKinney’s statements – it was akin to “well, you know.. like, it was so, I mean, so, like, you know, we were the evil, like country, like you know?) Can I have a dollar for every time she said that? Aw, shucks… okay.

This was VERY painful to watch. However, it was not only painful, but it was also – again – entertaining on cell-slapper Cynthia’s part. She is the queen of the “non-answer” coalition, and her biggest claim to fame in this debate and others, and by her own admission, is that she is the “#1 biggest critic of the Bush Administration.” Okay, so that puts you where in your political standing? It makes you no greater or higher in prestige than Pelosi, Dean, Boxer, Reid, Kerry, Kennedy, Murtha, and on and on and on. What? Are you guys all going to get into a fight to determine the WWF champion of who is THE biggest Bush critic? I think that can be won by the lunatic left collectively; so, no, Cynthia, you do not deserve a special place at the table of the Democratic party.

The Georgia Columbus Ledger had an AP piece on today’s debate:

Johnson says he is not a Republican pawn and he started running his race before the “ABC” – “Anybody but Cynthia” – campaign began. He said that of the more than 1,400 individual contributions his campaign has received, most were donations of $100 or less. Johnson said his campaign has identified only three contributions from known Republicans.

“I can guarantee the public my allegiance is to the voters,” Johnson said.

The candidates for the 4th Congressional District squared off in a live hour-long debate aired on WSB-TV. It was the last televised debate before Tuesday’s runoff election.

In the July 18th primary, Johnson, an attorney and former DeKalb County Commissioner, came within 1,700 votes of McKinney to force a runoff.

During the debate, Johnson twice questioned McKinney about the March scuffle between the congresswoman and a Capitol Hill police officer, asking her to tell voters what really happened that day. McKinney said the grand jury had spoken on the issue and vindicated her.

“What is a woman to do when she is grabbed from behind?” McKinney asked. “The grand jury knows everything about that incident. Mr. Johnson wasn’t there and he doesn’t know anything.”

Johnson seized upon the Capitol Hill incident as an example of what he has called McKinney’s embarrassing leadership in office. While he has spent much of his campaign contrasting himself to McKinney’s outspoken, confrontational style, Johnson says he thinks voters believe he is the best candidate for the job and not just an alternative to the controversial Congresswoman.

“I think the ‘Anybody But Cynthia’ campaign has turned into the ‘We Love Hank’ campaign,” he quipped.

McKinney called herself the “Number One critic of the Bush administration” and urged voters to send her back to Washington.

“I stand in stark contrast to the Republican majority, and I’m proud of that,” McKinney said. “I promise to go to Washington and never be quiet.”

When questioned about the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and the need for an immediate cease-fire, McKinney said that every country has a right to self-defense, but that the U.S. should be doing more to encourage peace in the region and take more of a stand for human rights for Israeli and Lebanese civilians. Johnson said the U.S. should stand by Israel as its ally.

“It’s very difficult to call a cease-fire with a terrorist organization,” Johnson said.

To read the rest, and to watch the videos, go to MsUnderestimated’s original post.

Newsbusters details Rather’s reluctance to label Hezbollah, hellbent on destroying Israel, as a terrorist organization.

Bill O’Reilly: “But here’s the problem with American reportage. Some networks give moral equivalency to Hezbollah in the reporting of this war.”

Dan Rather: “I agree that that’s a problem.” O’Reilly: “Do you agree it happens?” Rather: “I agree it happens, and I agree it’s a problem, that, it’s a problem that those of us in journalism have been reluctant to address—I do not exclude myself from this criticism—reluctant to address that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization.” O’Reilly: “Right.” Rather: “It’s committed to the destruction of Israel. It isn’t committed to trying to just gain territory. It’s committed to its destruction.”

Dan Rather money quote, literally:

“It’s not by accident that our slogan in this country, written on our money, our buildings in Washington, united we stand.”

It’s fake, but acurate!

Allah at Hot Air has more.

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Cross-posted from Ms.Underestimated.

I know there are more significant things going on in the world right now, but I just couldn’t help reporting on this debate. Cell-phone slugger Cynthia McKinney on Monday was before the Atlanta Press Club debating her Democratic opponent, Hank Johnson, just prior to the upcoming elections here in Georgia. Remember, Cynthia was a “no show” at two other previous debates, of which she was to be part, so I was kind of shocked that she showed up this time. I guess she’d run out of excuses, so I settled in and prepared to be entertained.

And I wasn’t disappointed.

Johnson was a complete robot – he never looked away from the questioning panel that I could see. However, McKinney looked several times like she wanted to smack Johnson (well, isn’t that her forte’?).

As animated as she was, she was the only entertainment here, and here are just a few of her most shining moments (satirical captions compliments of your humble blogger):

You got money from Republicans!

You accused me of what???

Well let me tell YOU something!

Oh, crap… I forgot the cameras were rolling!

She also did the typical non-answer of a key question – that question was whether or not she thought her encounter with the Capitol Hill police officer hurt her campaign, to which she responded “well, as a matter of fact, I was never charged with anything.” Yeah, right. And you wonder why the National Fraternal Order of Police, the State of Georgia FOP, local FOPs, and the Georgia Sheriff’s Association financially backed Johnson?

You can’t even tell the truth, Cynthia, yet all you do is speak about “truth to power.” What the hell does that mean? I’m STILL trying to get someone to tell me what that means! It’s a mantra that’s thrown around on the left, and it makes no sense to me. I believe in “power to TRUTH,” if you want to know my take on it.

Oh, and one of Johnson’s seemingly most egregious points of fact to McKinney was that Johnson has received campaign donations from Republicans! OH, THE HORROR! Yes, she even tells Hank that if he’s getting votes from Republicans, he might as well be a Republican. Whaaa??? Hank should have, if he’d have had the gonads, reminded Cynthia and the viewing audience that almost all of her campaign donations came from Muslims – and many of them on 9/11/01! And yes, in the end, she didn’t disappoint, as she gave us one of her most famous, idiotic, signature moral superiority arguments:

“Eisenhower reminds us that every dollar spent on war is a theft from the people, and I’ve brought more than $350M. Send me back to Washington so I can speak “truth to power’.”

Never mind the segue into this blather was very weak, and didn’t make sense. But this is Cynthia McKinney, after all. As Neal Boortz calls her, “the cutest little Jihadist in Congress.”

Oh, and by the way… I looked up her record on Congress.org, of which she so proudly boasts about her rating. And she has made some very powerful votes while in Congress. NOT! You want to know what her ranking is in the entire House? Try a whopping ranking of #408. The Congress.org site describes this ranking structure this way:

“Ranking in Chamber based on member’s 2005 Power Score. Formula based on position in Congress, actions taken to influence legislative agenda, and legislative successes.”

Remember, there are 435 members of the House, and Cynthia ranks #408. That’s #408 out of #435. What a RAVING success! She must have been bumped from #435 to #408 for that Tupac Amaru Shakur Open Records Act, HR4210. Yeah, right. By the way; the previous link to her Tupac action is courtesty of one of her biggest fanbase websites, ThugLifeArmy.

The last few minutes of the debate can sum up the whole thing. You can view that portion here.

Read the rest of the post at Ms.Underestimated, and watch additional video from Special Report.

Geoffrey Dickens at Newsbusters:

On last night’s Hardball, leftist and Pacifica radio talk show host Amy Goodman patted Chris Matthews on his back for his long held anti-war stance. Prior to a big anniversary celebration at Rockfeller Center, Goodman started to congratulate Matthews on MSNBC’s 10th year in business but then took the moment to slam its executives for firing Phil Donahue for his anti-war stance. Goodman roared: “they didn’t want him to be the face of this network, an anti-war face at a time when the other networks were waving the flag.” However when Matthews reminded Goodman that: “if being against the war was a problem here, I’d have been out of here about four years ago, ” the Democracy Now host quickly realized her error and made good by congratulating Matthews.

MSNBC hosts not having an anti-war stance? Obviously Donahue was the only show Goodman watched on MSNBC, because just about every host is against the War in Iraq and makes their opinion clear as day. Tucker Carlson, who hosts Tucker at 4pm and 6pm, said this about the War:

Carlson, on the Iraq war: “I think it’s a total nightmare and disaster, and I’m ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it. It’s something I’ll never do again. Never. I got convinced by a friend of mine who’s smarter than I am, and I shouldn’t have done that. No. I want things to work out, but I’m enraged by it, actually.”

Chris Matthews said this last night:

Matthews: “Well, if being against the war was a problem here, I’d have been out of here about four years ago, because I`ve been against this war from day one, and that didn’t cost me a job.”

Keith Olbermann, need I say more?

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Cross-posted from MsUnderestimated.

Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, was brave enough to come on with Laura tonight to talk about the recent heckling incidents on Capitol Hill. Laura didn’t hold anything back – and I love her for that! She did it all, however, with finesse. Medea, as usual, was waiting for the Mother Wheel to beam her back up.

As usual, the Code Pinkos don’t have any real plan, and for the life of me, I’ll never understand how they continue to sell their garbage to the gullible left. At one point, Laura tells her her ideas are a “John Lennon song – not a plan.” If you listen to one of them, all you have to do is record it and you can play it back over any video on TV of any activist, and it won’t make a difference. The voice may not match, but the words are all the same. Blah blah, and more blah. Laura starts out by remarking that Medea was charged with Disruption of Congress, and asks her about that.

Here’s a partial transcript:

Laura: You don’t have any leg irons on you or handcuffs or anything? They sprung you, eh?

Medea: That’s right, and I must say you look very pretty in pink, Laura.

Laura: Well, I would like to say that I was wearing it for you, but it was the only thing in my closet.

Okay, here’s my question to you: How does heckling help the cause of human rights. I would assume you would agree that you’re a human rights activist, right?

Medea: I don’t like the word “heckling,” I would say we were speaking…

Laura: Well that’s what you were doing.

Medea: …well, that’s the word you use, but we were saying, we were speaking up for the people who weren’t being heard. We tried through many means to meet with the Prime Minister. We called his office before he came.

Laura: Are you kidding me?

Medea: Oh, no, I’m serious!

Laura: You actually thought that you were going to meet with the Prime Minister of Iraq?

Medea: We came very close; we spoke to the Ambassador three times, and he said he got us a meeting and then they never showed up for it. So we didn’t have a chance. He spoke to George Bush, he spoke to Congress, but…

Laura: Why should he meet with Code Pink?

Medea: Just because we represent now the majority voice of the United States.

Laura: Oh, so Code Pink speaks for the majority of Americans?

Medea: Have you seen the latest poll of the New York Times?

Laura: Do you think that the majority of Americans see what you guys did this week on Capitol Hill, and are going “Yeah, BE RUDE to the Iraqi Prime Minister! Yeah, be really rude and act like you’re about 12 years old when the U.N. Ambassador, who is trying to represent our country’s interests, is up on Capitol Hill testifying!” You think people really think you guys are cool for doing that?

Read the rest and watch the video clip at MsUnderestimated.

I thought Juan might have learned his lesson with Laura Ingraham on Friday’s Factor, but apparently not. Hell, even his DNC Talking Points haven’t changed one iota.

Laura on Friday, Incredulous at Juan’s Rantings…

On Fox News Sunday, the panel was, of course, disussing the Israeli/Hezbollah war. And again, like on Friday, Juan talks about the inordinate amount of damage, intentional and collateral, the Israelis are inflicting on innocent Lebanese. Hey, Juan… haven’t you heard? The Israelis are dropping leaflets, TELLING citizens to move to safety, at the risk of revealing their war plans to Hezbollah. I’m very sorry that Lebanon hasn’t been strong enough to reign in Hezbollah, but U.N. Resolution 1559 demanded it. Israel has given concession after concession after concession, all with promises that violence from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah would stop… if only Israel would vacate Gaza, blah, blah, and more blah. Were the promises ever kept? Nope. When the final concession was made to leave Gaza, even after the horrible scenes of Israelis being physically removed from their homes in the settlements, Hamas immediately began firing rockets into Israel. They trashed every economic and commerce structure inside Gaza, and basically gutted the place. So Israel got the shaft again for appeasing the terrorists.

Hey, America and the rest of the world…. are you paying attention? Israel has been appeasing the terrorists, and none of the promises made to them were kept. Do you honestly think that if we appease Al Qaeda, et. al that they’ll stop their violent, bloody Jihadi campaign to kill all infidels? If you answered yes, you need to have your head checked.

As usual, several of the other panelists had their “did he just really say that?” moments with Juan, as did Laura Ingraham on Friday (see photo above). I am going to start highlighting these every time Juan acts like an idiot and leaves other guests with their jaws agape.

Here is the best part of the transcript:

GIGOT: The best thing you can do for the Lebanese government is to degrade and disarm Hezbollah because the weaker Hezbollah is as a military force, the more it will have to remain a political party, play a role in Lebanon. And the more you strengthen the Lebanese army and the Lebanese…

WILLIAMS: But this undermines our basic theory that Secretary Rice is taking over to the Middle East this weekend, which is to get the Arab states to act as a buffer between Hezbollah and the Lebanese government and Israel and the United States, because what you’re doing is you have the Arab leadership now willing to go to Rome and talk with Secretary Rice.

But the people—the people are angry at Israel and the United States and see this as a one-sided deal, the U.S. speeding delivery of more military munitions, more of those F-15 U.S.-made fighter jets bombing away at Lebanon. How do you imagine that that won’t result in animosity and generations of people who are just furious?

Are you kidding me, Juan?

GIGOT: So you’re furious because we’re sending targeted weapons, these smart weapons that can explicitly …

WILLIAMS: Have you seen the pictures, Paul?

I’m biting my tongue on this one.

GIGOT: Look, it’s a very difficult situation. But the smart weapons actually do less damage. We ought to speed more weapons over there because they’ll do less damage to civilians.

WILLIAMS: I think the weapons they’re speeding over there are those bunker busters that are going to do more damage.

You’re not serious, are you Juan?

GIGOT: Thank God for the bunker busters, because…

KRISTOL: Yes, there aren’t a lot of civilians…

GIGOT: ... that means you’re going to get these people 100 feet down.

KRISTOL: There aren’t a lot of innocent Lebanese civilians in bunkers. It’s the senior leadership of Hezbollah, and they need to be killed.

WILLIAMS: Well, General…

KRISTOL: And this operation will fail, I’m afraid…

WILLIAMS: But, General Kristol, General Kristol…

KRISTOL: ... if they don’t succeed in wiping out…

WILLIAMS: ... you understand we’re fighting people who are a guerrilla unit. They hide in civilian—they hide in apartment buildings, under apartment buildings. So we’re saying okay, we know you’ve got to go get them, and we’re apparently saying therefore go get the Lebanese…

Well, let me tell you something!

KRISTOL: I’m sorry, the Israeli army broadcasts and drops leaflets telling civilians to leave.

WILLIAMS: OK.

KRISTOL: They’ve done that throughout south Lebanon.

WILLIAMS: True.

KRISTOL: They’ve been incredibly careful. They’ve aborted bombing raids when they’ve said there were too many civilians that might be killed. The U.S. and Israeli armies have conducted the wars in Iraq and this war in Lebanon with incredible attempts to minimize civilian damages.

Check out the full post, transcript & video at MsUnderestimated.

More proof, as if it was needed, that Chris Matthews is a dolt:

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Well, I hate to say it, but you know, it’s their part of the world, not ours and we had a civil war in this country that cost 600,000 dead and they didnt’ come in and get involved in our civil war. Why are we involved in their’s?

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Twice in less than 24 hours, conservative columnist Jim Pinkerton left liberal talking-head rivals at a loss for words on the issue of missile defense.

Pinkerton’s first victim was Neal Gabler, on last evening’s Fox News Watch. In the context of the North Korean missile tests, liberal Gabler flatly stated: “Missile defense does not work. That is what we have learned.” Shot back Pinkerton: “The Japanese believe in it. That’s why they’re building it right now.” Gabler’s silence was golden.

Oh, dear.

Read the rest at Newsbusters …

(h/t Right Wing News)

Some left-wing kook did an experiment with a rabbit cage and concrete slabs attempting to prove the World Trade Centers didn’t collapse from the result of planes hitting them.

Here’s the thread with more pictures and left-wing lunacy.

(h/t Conservative Intelligence Report):

Responding to Juan Williams saying something about you portray people as with the president or with the terrorists, that is unfair. In a very curt manner Brit responded:

“Juan, if I’d have said that, I’d apologize… I didn’t and I won’t.” (With a little chuckle at the end.)

Brit went on to educate Juan in what kind of war we are in. In laymen’s terms, they want to kill us, Juan.

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