MTV Gives Obama Free Hour of Air Time, Denies He’ll be Political

MTV's parent company Viacom is giving President Obama an hour of free air time for a town hall meeting on Thursday, claiming that the event will not be political. Because of that claim, a spokeswoman says, Viacom will not be extending the same courtesy to any Republicans.

Human Events reports that the TV special, called "A Conversation with President Obama," will be live and commercial-free on six Viacom networks at 4 p.m. on Thursday, including MTV, BET, and CMT.

According to Viacom spokeswoman Kelly McAndrew, the company is adamant that the event will not be political, and therefore does not require equal time for someone who may think differently than Obama about the country's issues. That's despite the fact November's mid-term elections are about three weeks away.

"We're not giving an hour of free time to the president to freely express his views. We're hosting a town hall with 250 young people to ask questions of the president," McAndrew told HE.

"This is not a campaign appearance. This is a town hall discussion."

The White House conceived of the concept and asked for the commercial-free TV time, according to Viacom. However, MTV and BET already had "asks" into the White House to do something with the president.

While McAndrew said that the audience's questions would not be submitted in advance, she did admit that the the audience members would be pre-screened to ensure "diverse" inquiries.

Read the entire article at Human Events.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mtv-gives-obama-free-hour-of-air-time-denies-hell-be-political/

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Reagan Recovery vs. Obama Recovery in Pictures

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Reagan Recovery vs. Obama Recovery in Pictures

The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
October 13, 2010 12:00:40 PM

Conn Carroll

According to The National Bureau of Economic Research, the most recent recession began in December 2007, lasted 18 months, and ended in June 2009. The recession which most closely resembles the most recent one began in July 1981, lasted 16 months, and ended in November 1982. No two recessions are exactly the same. No two recoveries are exactly the same. But as two-time Super Bowl champion coach Bill Parcells still liked to say: "You are what your record says you are." Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow J.D. Foster read us the score:

At this stage of the Reagan recovery from the last deep recession in the early 1980s, the economy had created almost 4 million jobs, or 6 million jobs when adjusting for the size of the labor force. In contrast, under Obama the economy has lost nearly a half million jobs since the recovery began; the growth rate remains stuck around 1 percent; and the economy is sufficiently weak that the Federal Reserve is about to embark on yet another round of quantitative easing to fend off deflation.

As the chart to the right shows, 16 months into the Reagan Recovery the nation's unemployment had already fallen a full three points. By contrast, 16 months into the Obama Recovery and the nation's unemployment rate is actually .1 points higher. Why was the Reagan Recovery so strong and why is the Obama Recovery so weak?

• President Reagan cut marginal tax rates. President Obama is about to allow the largest tax hike in American history.
• President Reagan reined-in government union power by firing striking air traffic controllers. President Obama bailed-out state government unions, hired more federal government union members, and even bought a car company for the very same union that ran it into the ground in the first place.
• President Reagan simplified and reduced telecommunications and anti-trust regulations. President Obama expanded and complicated regulations in the health and financial sectors.
• President Reagan returned power to the states by reducing the percentage of state expenditures that come from the federal government. President Obama, through both the failed $862 billion stimulus and the trillion dollar health care plan, has made the states more dependent on Washington than ever.

These policies reflect the different governing philosophies of these two presidents. In his First Inaugural Address, President Reagan said: "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. … In the days ahead, I will propose removing the roadblocks that have slowed our economy and reduced productivity."

President Obama, however, sees a much larger role for the federal government. As he said on the campaign trail in 2008: "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

So far that hasn't been the case.

Enterprise and Free Markets Entitlements Ronald Reagan state of the union the Obama Recovery

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The EPA Ozone Regs: Another Obama Jobs Killer

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The EPA Ozone Regs: Another Obama Jobs Killer

The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
October 13, 2010 4:00:30 PM

Conn Carroll

Just two years ago, President George Bush's Environmental Protection Agency lowered the ozone standard from 84 parts per billion (ppb) to the current 75 ppb. Ozone is a naturally occurring molecule made up of three oxygen atoms that can be unhealthy at high levels. It is often created when vehicle and industrial emissions (from manufacturers and refineries) react with sunlight.

The EPA normally waits at least five years before revising their ozone standard, but their is nothing normal about the Obama EPA. In January 2010, the Obama EPA proposed reducing the again, this time to 60 ppb. The EPA claims this will save as many as 12,000 lives a year and as much as $100 billion annually in health care spending by 2020. But then there is the cost.

According to a new study by the Manufacturers Alliance are huge including $1 trillion in annual attainment costs by 2020 and over 7 million jobs lost. Some of the states hardest hit? Washington would lose 234,000 jobs, Ohio 296,000, Pennsylvania 351,000, and Louisiana 983,000, and Texas would lose a whopping 1.7 million jobs.

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Obama: Republicans Will Have to Learn to Get Along With Me

President Obama reveals in a magazine article due out Sunday that he is weighing what to do if Republicans win the House majority next month, and has come up with a novel approach: Make the GOP work with him. 

http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~3/6AfoXRuSJU0/

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Awesome: White House attacks on Rove’s group lead to massive influx of donations

Backfire.

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Actually, that's only half of what makes it awesome. What makes it fully awesome is that, thanks to the new money, they can now target House seats that they otherwise would have had to pass on. Alternate headline: "Are we sure Obama's not trying to help the GOP take back the House?" American Crossroads, a [...]

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http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/13/awesome-white-house-attacks-on-roves-group-lead-to-massive-influx-of-donations/

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Michelle Obama Begs Voters to Give Her Husband More Time to Forge the Change

Please! No more change…
Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression. The Obama-Pelosi economic plan resulted in a cumulative 7.5 million jobs deficit. By every objective measure the democrat's Trillion dollar stimulus bomb was a complete disaster.

Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi tripled the national deficit last year by nearly a trillion dollars – something unheard of in our nation's history.

After an unheard of record deficit last year of $1.4 Trillion the democrats managed to compile a $1.3 Trillion deficit this year.

Instead of focusing on the economy the past two years the radicals in Washington beat up on business and rammed through an unpopular nationalized health care entitlement program. Today 61% of voters want the democratic law repealed.

Today, at a rally for far left Democrat Russ Feingold, the First Lady begged voters for more time to forge change.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported:

US First Lady Michelle Obama yesterday poignantly said she felt the economic anxiety of hurting Americans, but pleaded with them to give her husband more time to forge the change he promised.

"I think that many of us came into this expecting to see all the change we talked about happen at once, right away, the minute Barack walked through the Oval Office door," she said…

"I know that a lot of folks are still hurting, I know that for a lot of folks, change hasn't come fast enough."

The First Lady was making her debut on the 2010 campaign trail, three weeks ahead of congressional elections in which voters are expected to inflict heavy losses on Democrats which could stall her husbands reform agenda.

"We all understood that change takes struggle, and sacrifice and compromise," Obama said, campaigning for endangered Democratic Senator Russ Feingold in midwestern Wisconsin.

With pollsters pointing to an "enthusiasm gap" between Barack Obama's supporters and conservatives outraged by his presidency, the White House is trying to drive the president's diverse, youthful coalition to the polls.

"In the end, our campaign was never just about just pulling one man and putting him into the White House," she said, urging supporters to remember how the election night in 2008 and Obama's inauguration in January 2009.

"We were excited, we were energised, we were hopeful … and the truth is, we have that same chance – and we have that same responsibility – today."

Obama said she came to the campaign "as a Mom" and realised what was at stake.

"I see it in the child whose dad has just been deployed and is trying to hard to be brave for his younger brothers and sisters."

"I see it in the child stuck in a crumbling school, who looks around and wonders 'what on earth is this going to mean for my future?

She sounds a bit ridiculous talking about the suffering of the average American. After all, she just returned from a royal vacation in southern Spain.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/10/michelle-obama-begs-voters-to-give-her-husband-more-time-to-forge-the-change/

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FDR on welfare 1935: "The lessons of history … show conclusively that continued dependence upon reli

Turns out that liberal icon FDR was only a neo-statist. Or maybe he was a statist with reservations. Whatever he was, he has inflicted the United States with a chronic case of entitlemetitis. Sure it was unconstitutional. But what the heck? It's kept Democrats in power ever since. It is a cancer that continues to metastasize. It may have dawned on FDR, but he raped Lady Liberty nonetheless. From Human Events via moonbattery:

"The lessons of history … show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit."

These searing words about Depression-era welfare are from Franklin Roosevelt's 1935 State of the Union Address. FDR feared this self-reliant people might come to depend permanently upon government for the necessities of their daily lives. Like narcotics, such a dependency would destroy the fiber and spirit of the nation.

What brings his words to mind is news that 41.8 million Americans are on food stamps, and the White House estimates 43 million will soon be getting food stamps every month. …

What we have accepted today is a vast permanent underclass of scores of millions who cannot cope and must be carried by the rest of society — fed, clothed, housed, tutored, medicated at taxpayer's expense for their entire lives. We have a new division in America: those who pay a double fare, and those who forever ride free.

How to reverse it? More specifically, how to reverse it when more than 50% of Americans not only pay no federal income taxes, but get money back from those that do? Right now we are here: Not only does bottom 47% of taxpayers pay no federal income tax, but the bottom 40% GET MONEY BACK! That goes right along in consistency with a prior post of mine: 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll: 50% of Americans that don't pay taxes thinks "rich" people ought to pay more, even though top 1% pay more than bottom 95%. Like a drug addict addicted to heroin, separating the dependent from the drug will be painful. At least during the transition. But to get back to a sustainable civilization, we need to go back to first principles. Which is the whole point why the US Constitution was written. The ruling class has drifted away from it, with the approval of activist courts. Follow our founding document and we'll be fine once again.

Government dependency is a drug

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/10/fdr-on-welfare-1935-lessons-of-history.html

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Jerry Brown: "We Need More Welfare and Fewer Jobs"

If you think the situation in California is bad now, wait until Governor Moonbeam gets reinstated. Here's his economic policy:

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs. Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all.

You see, when everyone is on welfare, we can just let robots do all the work while we sit around our government-provided homes and watch Oprah all day. Then we'll all be Democrats. Utopia!

If a certifiable lunatic like Jerry Brown is the best Dems can do for governor of the largest state in the union at a time of severe crisis, it's time for this execrable party to crawl into the dustbin of history.

It's medication time.

Via Big Government. On a tip from Gregory of Yardale.

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/10/jerry-brown-we.html

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Figures on government spending and debt

WASHINGTON (AP) — Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.

http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/13/figures-on-government-spending-and-debt-68/

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EPA funnels taxpayer money to dozens of liberal community activist groups

The EPA recently listed 76 groups that will share almost $2 million in the form of "environmental justice grants"

http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/13/epa-funnels-taxpayer-money-to-dozens-of-liberal-community-activist-groups/

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