Product consumption relies on two things…. a producer who makes a product, and a consumer who consumes the product.    In relation to the news as a product the American consumer is static, unchanged, and consistent –  A “Center-Right” majority.  

It is the left-wing product CNN is selling which few consumers actually want.   Unless they change their product nothing will change.    Unfortunately, they are constitutionally incapable of seeing how out of touch, and unwanted, their product is.  They are PROGS!

The evidence of this disconnect is right there in the words of the quitting Jim Walton. 

He believes the product is “centrist”.   His product contains the ideology of: Christiane Amanpour, Brooke Baldwin, Roland Martin, Robin Meade, Soledad O’Brien, Don Lemon, Fareed Zakaria, Piers Morgan, Anderson Cooper and others….  Yet, Jim Walton BELIEVES the product is “centrist”…  typical prog disconnect.

NEW YORK — CNN chief Jim Walton said Friday he is quitting, saying the company needs new leadership at a time its flagship U.S. network is suffering through some of its poorest ratings ever.

Walton built the company into a profitable international news organization in his 10 years as president of CNN Worldwide, and said it is on track for record profits this year. But the U.S. network is the most visible part of the business and is now entrenched in third place behind rivals Fox News Channel and MSNBC in prime time. (more…)

Five years ago (2007) when John Stossel worked for ABC 20/20 he produced this news story about the TRUTH of gun control and how the anti-gun alliances are intentionally deceptive. The statistics do not lie.

On Friday’s 20/20, ABC anchor John Stossel discussed the self-defensive benefits of gun ownership, debunking the myth that “gun control reduces crime.” The segment aired during 20/20’s recurring series, “Myths, Lies & Downright Stupidity,” based on Stossel’s book of the same title. Citing the recent Federal Appeals Court for DC ruling overturning Washington, D.C.’s ban on gun ownership, Stossel talked to the pro-gun plaintiff in the case, Tom Palmer, and pointed out that the murder rate in D.C. increased after the city’s gun ban: “Since Washington’s gun law passed, the murder rate actually increased, even while America’s murder rate dropped. It’s because guns can also save lives, says Palmer, as one saved his years ago in California.”

Anyone who has studied the history of totalitarian marxist government will tell you one of the first goals of a corrupt manipulative central government is to control the media.  But, few would actually believe it occurs in modern political discourse.   Unfortunately, they would be wrong; not only does it happen, but control is the key element to keeping the freedom reduction agenda hidden from the masses.

One only has to look at Poland for a great example of how a looming government can keep the people believing their concerns are in the minority – until a few brave souls stand up and say “hey, wait a minute, there are more of us than them”….  

(New York Times)  They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name.

Most reporters, desperate to pick the brains of the president’s top strategists, grudgingly agree. After the interviews, they review their notes, check their tape recorders and send in the juiciest sound bites for review.

The verdict from the campaign — an operation that prides itself on staying consistently on script — is often no, Barack Obama does not approve this message.

The push and pull over what is on the record is one of journalism’s perennial battles. But those negotiations typically took place case by case, free from the red pens of press minders. Now, with a millisecond Twitter news cycle and an unforgiving, gaffe-obsessed media culture, politicians and their advisers are routinely demanding that reporters allow them final editing power over any published quotations. (more…)

Mayor Progberg not content with banning Slurpees, banning soft drinks, banning salt, banning donuts, banning foods he and his prog-minded insufferable prog-followers do not think you should have….. is now demanding the nation ban guns just like their prog-heaven New Prog City.   Insufferable progrocrats, all.of.them.

I am so sick of their pontificating elitist BS I could just spit…… maybe I will.

(Politico) — A gun control group led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and backed by survivors of the 2011 Tuscon shooting is demanding in a new ad that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama take clear stances on the issue.

In the wake of Friday’s massacre in Aurora, Colo., Mayors Against Illegal Guns took out a full-page ad in Wednesday’s USA Today asking the candidates to release gun control plans. The ad is signed by 11 survivors of the January 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six. The daughter of one of the dead also signed the ad, which asserts that 48,000 people will die from gun violence during the next president’s four-year term. (more…)

Huma Abedin has specific “ties” to the Muslim Brotherhood, this is not in dispute; it is a fact.   Huma’s Egyptian mother is an open member of the Muslim Sisterhood.   So the answer from DHS Secretary Napolitano is flat-out “false”, or in real words, “a lie”.   The issue is NOT if she has ties, that is self-evident, the issue is whether the actual ties have “influence” over her. 

Huma Abedin’s mother, Saleha, who is a member  of the Muslim Brotherhood’s female division (the “Muslim Sisterhood”),  is a major figure in not one but two Union for Good components. The  first is the International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief (IICDR).  It is banned in Israel for supporting Hamas under the auspices of the  Union for Good. Then there’s the International Islamic Committee for  Woman and Child (IICWC) — an organization that Dr. Saleha Abedin has  long headed. Dr. Abedin’s IICWC describes itself as part of the IICDR.  And wouldn’t you know it, the IICWC charter was written by none other than, wait for it, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s chief sharia jurist, in conjunction with several self-proclaimed members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Prog-logic is always based on various degrees of obfuscation, disingenuous hair-splitting and semantics.  (See Bill Clinton “it depends on what your definition of “is” is…. )  In Napolitano’s answers to the faux-questioning from Sheila Jackson Lee you find all of these aspects propagated to create specifically worded distractions.

Alarming to say the least.   However, the easiest way to deconstruct the falsehoods amid trained and comfortable liars are with additional questions, which -by the way- are always missed.   Such a question like:  “So Abedin’s mother is not then a member of the Muslim Sisterhood”?   This type of follow-up question always brings out the liar in the room.

A liar is bound by their connective ideology to continue shaping, molding and tweaking their response out of a necessary aim toward deflection.   The truth teller does not hold the same capacity to change their response with any adjustment.  Someone telling the truth has to repeat the same response over and over, because the truth does not change, it exists without variation, and does not have an agenda in delivery.

WASHINGTON DC – During a hearing Wednesday with the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano if DHS had discovered any links between a high-ranking official in the State Department and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The question was a nod to a letter authored by Rep. Michele Bachmann and signed by five House Republicans that was sent to the State Department. (more…)

WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told lawmakers on Wednesday that a member of an Egyptian militant group labeled by the United States as a terrorist organization was vetted by three U.S. agencies before visiting the White House.

Napolitano said the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Secret Service all thoroughly examined the Egyptian man, Hani Nour Eldin, before his visit to Washington D.C. where he met with members of Congress and senior administration officials.

Eldin is a member of the Gama’a al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Group, which has been designated by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization. But Eldin was also recently elected as a member of Egypt’s parliament in the Islamic Group’s political offshoot, the Building and Development Party. (more…)

HatTip Mike V.

(Huffington Idjits) Less than one week after the mass shooting which left 12 dead at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., the Denver Post reports background checks for people wanting to purchase firearms in the state have jumped more than 41 percent.

“It’s been insane,” Rocky Mountain Guns and Ammo employee Jake Meyers told the paper, saying there were already 15-20 people waiting outside the store when he arrived at work Friday morning, just hours after the massacre.

Over the weekend, the Colorado Bureau of Investigations approved 2,887 background checks for people seeking to purchase a firearm, according to the Post.

The spike follows an example set in Arizona, where gun sales soared following a shooting which left six dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to Bloomberg.

That report cited data from the Federal Bureau of Investigations, which found one-day sales of handguns in Arizona jumped 60 percent two days after the shooting. (more…)

The Jackboots are coming !

The ATF’s Fast & Furious scandal has now led to Eric Holder being the first Attorney General ever found in contempt of Congress.  However, had it not been for whistle-blowers, the ATF’s arming of Mexican drug cartels would probably still be a secret.

Now a video memo from ATF boss Todd Jones has been leaked to the public by an unknown ATF employee. The video shows Todd Jones threatening agents not to go outside the chain of command.

Jones states, ” if you don’t find the appropriate way to raise your concerns to your leadership, there will be consequences.” Congressman Chuck Grassley sent Todd Jones a letter saying that the statement *”appears to be a threat” against potential whistle-blowers.

*Appears to be?  Appears to be?   I would love to get Zurich Mikes’ opinion on this policy implementation video from a Compliance Officer’s perspective.

** NOTE:  PRB = Public Relations Bureau