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MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer regrets that Times Square suspect is Muslim

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I heard this on Hugh Hewitt‘s nationally syndicated radio show.

This is how the mainstream media thinks. This is what these news anchors are willing to say in public. Can you imagine what they say in private? And what about how it affects their reporting of the news? Unbelievable.

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Richest hedge fund managers gave 98% of contributions to Democrats

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Story here on Big Government. (H/T ECM)

Excerpt:

The world’s top-earning hedge fund managers have bankrolled almost exclusively Democratic campaigns.

The top 10 highest-paid hedge fund managers in 2009 have dished out campaign contributions almost only to Democrats.

Over their lifetimes, those managers have given almost $33 million in campaign contributions to Democrats, according to research by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and that is based on data maintained by the nonpartisan CQMoneyline.

The same managers gave roughly $600,000 to Republicans, according to the research. The contributions went 98 percent to Democrats and two percent to Republicans.

But there’s more:

As the Senate prepares to debate possibly hundreds of amendments to a Wall Street overhaul bill, labor unions and others have criticized the bill for not having tough restrictions on hedge funds.

“It’s very disconcerting to see this legislation moving forward that gives them a complete pass,” said Heather Slavkin, of AFL-CIO.

I wonder if the two facts are connected in some way? Maybe.

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    Barack Obama calls tea party movement “tea-baggers” in interview

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    Unbelievable. Story here at Americans for Tax Reform. (H/T ECM)

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    President Barack Obama, known for his lectures to others on civility, saw fit to use the obscene and derogatory term “tea-baggers” in a book interview with author Jonathan Alter.

    Below is an excerpt from Alter’s new book The Promise: President Obama, Year One, to be released May 18:

    Obama said that the unanimous House vote against the Recovery Act ‘set the tenor for the whole year’: ‘That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.’  For Obama this was the greatest surprise of 2009.

    And the post also contains some selected statements by Obama on civility.

    “We’ve got politicians calling each other all sorts of unflattering names.”

    “Now, the second way to keep our democracy healthy is to maintain a basic level of civility in our public debate.”

    “We can’t expect to solve our problems if all we do is tear each other down.  You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.”

    “So what do we do? As I found out after a year in the White House, changing this type of politics is not easy. And part of what civility requires is that we recall the simple lesson most of us learned from our parents: Treat others as you would like to be treated, with courtesy and respect.”

    It’s like having Michael Moore as president. No one takes a hate-filled, narrow-minded ideologue seriously. But this man is the president of the United States. We have a teenage clown as our president.