Liberals attending an anti-war protest in Smithfield last Saturday, are angry at the Raleigh News and Observer's apparent lack of coverage of their event.
In an email obtained by Katy's Conservative Corner, writer Christian Stalberg wrote that this "non-coverage ... establishes a pattern of McClatchy systematically ignoring events that question North Carolina's involvement in the war, kidnapping and torture."
Stalberg, posting on the Progressive Triangle Yahoo group, added that "the N&O is a disgrace to press freedom and serving the public's right to know. They appear to be a puppet of the Bush regime.
"It is tragic that McClatchy has a monopoly on newspaper readership here in North Carolina."
Over the years, many conservatives have commented that the N&O often opposes our causes, yet liberals are the folks now complaining.
Katy's Conservative Corner was on the scene on October 27th in Smithfield and is adding more videos daily to the YouTube site.
Editor's Note: Katy's Conservative Corner has gained a "fan" in Russia. This man is apparently too young to remember Communism, and he called your blogger all sorts of ugly names and couldn't seem to stick to the topic when commenting. You can read them all for yourself, by checking out the protest videos at www.youtube.com/katyscreations
Coming soon are some videos of Code Pink ladies speaking out about their cause. Keep checking the above YouTube site.
An e-mail obtained by Katy's Conservative Corner from "Jane", a member of Code Pink NC, shows that the Saturday protesters In Smithfield and at the Johnston County airport, feared for their safety. Yet many of these same people were expressing to your blogger their pride at having been arrested at their last protest.
Read on and judge for yourself. The full text of the email follows:
"Many thanks for coming to the Rally today. There were 13 of us from UUFR that I counted...Sally does not have e mail. For those who missed the final portion of the afternoon let me tell you.
There were probably about 100 who showed up at the top of the road which led to the gates of Aero. As we arrived we could see that the Eagles (I know they have a more complete name, but I don't know it yet) were already assembled in front of the Aero gate at the end of the road. And they were shouting insults, blowing whistles etc. .
We had a prayer from the new Social Outreach Mennonite minister connected with the Council of Churches. Roger spoke about his grandfather who spoke out in Germany and was one of the first to die in Dachau concentration camp. They asked for other volunteer speakers (readers) and after each reader a group of 8-10 proceeded down the road toward the gates carrying a photo of a person who had suf fered torture or had disappeared Jim,Sally and I were in about the fifth group to go down (the send off for each group was chanting, "we are all one") and when we got toward the end of the walk we had to squeeze through the leather jacketed , flag carrying eagles who gave way for the most part and we hung our pictures on the Aero fence. (the eagles had some parts of the fence blocked and told us we would have to deal with them before we hung our pictures there....)
So we moved a bit away and found an unguarded space to hang our portraits. There were only two State police officers present that I could see which made me a bit nervous, but on the way out I noticed at least three vans full of soldier like people who looked like they had on life jackets, and found out there were members of a SWAT team and as many more sheriff's cars.. So we were very well protected. It did cause the adrenalin to rise, but I was very glad that it was a peaceful protest as planned. Again, thank you all for takin the time to come. Love Jane"
KCC was on the scene in Johnston County, on Saturday and witnessed it all. Much of the above email is misleading.
These "portraits" were nothing more than generic outlines of faces with names on them such as "grandpa", "great-uncle", "aunt", etc.
Your blogger only noticed ONE actual photo of a person and it was so pixilated that it wasn't easy to tell if the photo was actually a real person or not.
It seems odd to this blogger that these people feared for their safety from "leather jacket wearing" conservatives. I have been in Washington DC as a worker and tourist many times, and feared for my own life, as militants have gotten in my face and yelled at me. I was simply walking up to the Capitol to go in, as its my favorite building in town.
This so-called extremism goes both ways, but luckily for all parties involved in Johnston County on Saturday, the police (except for one) and sheriff's department was professional and respectful. The police in Washington, DC see protesters daily and don't react nearly as quickly to altercations.
KCC was accosted by one senior member of the Smithfield PD who kicked our tripod. Luckily, that "mother of all tripods" is quite sturdy. No complaints here.
Many municipalities across the state are having elections or runoffs on November 6th. Please let us avoid elections, such as the Raleigh and Cary October races, where only 6-7% of eligible Republicans voted. Our hard working conservative candidates had no chance with that kind of turnout.
Now, here in Raleigh, Mayor Charles Meeker is geared up for action once the new council is sworn in. Our taxes will rise even higher as "our" mayor forces upon us publicly funded art, and more expensive, taxpayer funded goodies downtown.
My husband and I think it may be time to finally flee Raleigh. Despite his great job with Alcatel-Lucent, we won't be able to afford Raleigh anymore. Plus, we don't like being forced to pay for something we might rather help fund, privately.
Perhaps I'm preaching to the converted, but we must turn our folks out if we want to win. The opposition has been excellent in turning their people out. We can't let what happened in October, happen again.
Continue reading "Please Remind Conservative Friends to Vote Nov 6th" »
State Government Radio and WPTF are reporting that the Edwards campaign is attempting to kill a negative story running in the UNC student run Daily TarHeel, student-run television Carolina Week and a video on YouTube.
Edwards, frankly, cannot afford this negative attention. Civitas reports that he is running third in his home state in the Democrat presidential race. Lucky for him that our primaries will be held so late, that North Carolina will have virtually NO SAY in who our nominees will be.
State Government Radio states the following on its website (Editor's Note: Links in story are provided by Katy's Conservative Corner):
A student journalist at UNC–Chapel Hill is claiming members of the John Edwards presidential campaign attempted to get a story she produced on the campaign pulled from broadcast.
"The news about the controversy was first reported by UNC professor Leroy Towns on the Talk Politics blog. Carla Babb's report focuses on Edwards’ campaign headquarters located in Chapel Hill’s Southern Village, described in the report as the city’s most affluent neighborhood.
The location for the headquarters interested some students who thought it conflicted with Edwards' stance on reducing poverty.
Babb, a second-year graduate student, produced the report for Carolina Week, a television news program run by the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She also posted the two-and-a-half minute piece on the video website YouTube as part of an entry for an MTV Choose or Lose contest.
After her story went online, Babb says a member of the Edwards campaign called her and expressed their resentment and concern over the report. Babb referred the staffer to UNC assistant professor Dr. C.A. Tuggle, who oversees the Carolina Week program.
Tuggle says he subsequently received calls from Edwards campaign staffers, who questioned the integrity of the report as well as school staff, and threatened to cut off the school's access to the campaign...
Gosh, darn, no access to the campaign. What a shame.
Hat Tips:
Josh Ellis, State Government Radio
Talk Politics Blog, (UNC-CH student run -- link above)
UPDATE:
As it turns out, Edwards didn't even know about the story. Overeager campaign staffers were behind the threats. Edwards has distanced himself from these remarks.
It seems as if Edwards faltering campaign could use more professional staffers, however, it would probably just be too little, too late.
Hat Tip:
Under the Dome Online
Hillary has virtually wrapped up the nomination, according to polls. Edwards is running third in his home state according to the Civitas Institute.
Still, got 3 hours to blow? Wanna see the "man" who won't put his hand over his heart for the Pledge? Got $25? Then, get out and go see Osama Obama the Anti-American in Durham!
Here are the details:
Supporters of Ron Paul, the Libertarian presidential candidate who is a registered Republican, are educating themselves on the process of becoming delegates at the North Carolina Republican Convention, usually held the weekend after Memorial Day. The photo, left, shows the "Ron Paul Express" at the 2007 GOP Convention, held in Charlotte.
Their goal is to get as many committed Ron Paul delegates elected to the Republican National Convention as possible, to ensure that their candidate has a say in the nomination process. This effort in the state conventions is happening nationwide. Naturally, they prefer for Paul to be the nominee.
Katy's Conservative Corner has obtained an email, sent to Ron Paul supporters, which warns that if the Republican party finds out,"they may try to exclude you from being a delegate". Part of the message is below:
"Those who support Ron Paul must begin the process now of getting elected as a delegate to the convention. Please do not tell those involved in the decision-making process for selecting delegates that you support Ron Paul. If they figure this out, they may try to exclude you from becoming a delegate."
Clearly, Paul's supporters know that he is not universally loved among Republican loyalists. However, they are carefully crafting a plan to become a part of the process, rather than move around it.
Paul's supporters are dedicated and keep informed via the Internet and other electronic media. They organize efforts so that Paul nearly always makes a good showing in online polling, despite his dismal numbers in telephone and group polling.
The 2008 NC GOP convention is to be held in Greensboro. Details to come.
Continue reading "Ron Paul Supporters Quietly Placing Delegates at NC GOP State Convention" »
Looks like Jim Neal's days as the lone Dem in the race to challenge Elizabeth Dole are soon-to-be done.
Fellow NC political bloggers, The Soup, have got the NC meter pegged. They might not care much for Senator Dole, but they know that Chapel Hill liberal, Jim Neal, isn't the "man" the Dems want to challenge her.
Papers across the state are reporting that the North Carolina Democrat Party is back in recruitment phase after Neal's public coming out party on notorious liberal blog, BlueNC.
The Soup wrote:
"A gay investment banker who has spent most of his adult life in New York City and Los Angeles might be a dream candidate in the 27514 zip code, but somehow The Soup thinks this isn’t going to fly at Wilbur’s BBQ in Goldsboro."
The Tinky Winky character of Teletubbies fame is depicted with a purse, or is it a "man purse"? Too cute. My toddler son likes Tinky Winky. But not that much.
Hat Tip: The Soup
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Katy's Conservative Corner's least favorite NC political blog, BlueNC, has proudly published its list of sponsors. At the very bottom of the list is Media Matters, the group that is bashing Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, and other prominent conservatives. (See what MM has to say about each one, by clicking the corresponding link, above.)
Media Matters says that the most popular person in cable news, Bill O'Reilly, uses his position to "serially misinform his audiences" and was awarded the "MisInformer of the Year Award" for 2004.
KCC wishes Media Matters was unworthy of mention. However, these people are meddling in our business and our personal lives by trying to dictate what we see on television and hear on radio, especially talk radio.
It's not enough that their liberal view points are unwanted and non-entertaining. AirAmerica failed and proved that liberals can't, or don't know how to compete in the marketplace.
Now they are trying the Communist approach: get the government to shut down free thought and free speech. By clicking on the Rush Limbaugh link, above, you can view their efforts to throw Rush (and others) off the air.
Special thanks go out to Don Curtis and WPTF and all North Carolina talk radio statons for standing firm against these types of attacks.
BlueNC plays dirty when it comes to politics. Senator Elizabeth Dole was depicted as a slasher today (left) for voting to not to raise spending on liberal priorities. KCC also has found that the NC Democrat party used the same photo on its home page. We had hoped their state party would be above these low-blow tactics.
BlueNC loves to bash the John Locke Foundation and enjoy promoting higher taxes, included the dreaded transfer taxes. (More on that available at the Americans For Prosperity site or on FreedomWorks NC).
We conservatives have much work to do BEFORE November 2008. These liberal organizations are well-funded and well-organized. They are after our way-of-life.
Former State Senator Fern Shubert (R-Union County) appeared on CNN's Glenn Beck show last night to discuss how easy it is for illegal immigrants to obtain driver licenses.
If you are like me and do not watch anything on the "Communist News Network" (I'm a FoxNews gal), then you missed it. Here's her appearance below:
Go Fern! Thanks for keeping this important issue in the news.
Hat Tip: Bobby Coggins
Lake Junaluska -- At a Haywood County Republican Party event, on Saturday, Victor Burgess of Woodfin, announced that he would challenge Dole in the GOP primary, "because no one else would stand up".
In a long, rambling speech, Burgess stressed that he didn't know where U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole lives, that she is out-of-touch, and that she wasn't worried about the greatest threats to the United States, terrorism and communism. He cited the movie director Michael Moore ("Sicko") as what is wrong with America.
Burgess never once mentioned that Mrs. Dole has been working for GOP causes since the late 1960s, that she involved in student government at Duke University, and that she has worked at high levels of government, including holding cabinet positions, in several presidential administrations. Dole got her start during the Johnson era and is still fighting in Washington today.
Burgess told the visibly shaken audience that Mrs. Dole "tap dances" around important issues and that he waited many months to challenge her, until it became apparent that "no one else would".
Many attendees commented that Burgess ruined an otherwise "feel good evening" that the people of the Haywood County GOP worked diligently to prepare. One commented that Mr. Burgess owed organizer, Richard LaFrenz, an apology for talking for nearly twenty minutes, well beyond the alloted time of six minutes.
At the end of Burgess' diatribe, moderator and NC GOP vice chairman, David Sawyer, was forced to take the microphone from Burgess' hands.
Burgess told the crowd that he would officially announce his candidacy in Asheville on Thursday.
Editor's Note: Your blogger was in Haywood County on a campaign trip for another candidate and was video taping every speaker. All other speakers, including two for the same Congressional seat, were cordial and respectful and managed to follow the rules.
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