﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><ttl>60</ttl><title>Polly Sigh</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com</link><language>en</language><copyright /><itunes:subtitle> </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Papa Bear</itunes:author><itunes:summary /><description /><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Papa Bear</itunes:name><itunes:email>pastor.acts238@att.net</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:category text="Arts" /><item><title>Why there are so many liberal clones!</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/11/10/why-there-are-so-many-liberal-clones.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>An article by Walter Williams explains it all:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;I&gt;According to Karl Zinsmeister’s article “The Shame of America’s One-Party Campuses” in The American Enterprise (September 2002), campus political, and&lt;BR&gt;hence ideological, diversity is all but absent. Mr. Zinsmeister sampled faculty political affiliation obtained from local voter registration records at several universities. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;He classified faculty who registered as Democratic, Green or Working Families Party as members of the party of the Left and those registered as Republicans or Libertarians as members of the party of the Right. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The results were: Brown University, 5 percent of faculty were members of the party of the Right; at Cornell it was 3 percent; Harvard, 4 percent; Penn State, 17 percent; Stanford University, 11 percent; UCLA, 6 percent; and at UC Santa Barbara, 1 percent. There are other universities in the survey; however, the pattern is the same — a faculty dominated by leftist ideology. In some departments, such as Women’s Studies, African-American Studies, Political Science, Sociology, History and English, the entire faculty is leftist. When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader. Zinsmeister concludes that one would find much greater political diversity at a grocery store or on a city bus. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;So what does all this mean? It means your son or daughter will be taught that the Founders of United States were racists and sexists; capitalism is a tool used to oppress women and minorities; literature and philosophy written by “dead white men” is a tool of exploitation, one person’s vision of reality is just as valid as another’s, one set of cultural values (maybe the Taliban’s) is just as good as another, poverty is caused by rich people, and America is destroying the planet.&lt;/I&gt; &lt;BR&gt;_____&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;If you want your children to be a clone, send them to a state university. If you want them to find another perspective, choose some other educational means... OTHERWISE... clone city!&lt;/P&gt;</description><category>ARTICLES</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/11/10/why-there-are-so-many-liberal-clones.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">fadc2fa6-31db-4221-9f42-1db9616244bb</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:12:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NEVER WANT TO HEAR IT AGAIN! - AMERICA IS NOT A RACIST COUNTRY - THE "DREAM" IS REALIZED!</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/11/05/never-want-to-hear-it-again--america-is-not-a-racist-country--the-dream-is-realized.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>One of the most frustrating experiences as a conservative, is the misnomer that conservatives are racist. I knew it to not be true. We are conservatives...period.&amp;nbsp; Yes, there may be a few David Dukes left in the world, but they are a dinosaur remnant of ignorance and intellectual dishonesty.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In this concession speech by John McCain, Mac asserts this very principle.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;IFRAME src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/27545964#27545964" frameBorder=0 width=425 scrolling=no height=339&gt;&lt;/IFRAME&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=6&gt;THEREFORE...&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The race-baiting of the last 50 years is hereby over with. President-elect Barak Obama is defined by his political stances. He is the 2nd most liberal in the Senate.&amp;nbsp; Did you see those words... LIBERAL not the 2nd most "African American" in congress!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;So, the racism of the black culture, must be left behind. No longer will the lowest common denominator be what defines a race or people. The Jesse Jacksons, Al Sharptons, the Mfumes and Farrakahns of the world are hereby declared as much a dinosaur in the history of this great nation, as poll taxes are.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;We&amp;nbsp;UNIFY with all Americans, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, "I have a dream..." which has been fulfilled and realized to the highest degree possible. We are proud to leave this legacy behind.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;So, in the next four years, we will protest to see the words "racist" applied to any conservative when we resist the socialist agenda of President Obama. We will remain steadfastly with Reagan-like conservative principles and ideas. The party called "The Republicans" can return to this mark, or we can start another party... it makes no difference to us. We are the conservatives.&lt;BR&gt;</description><category>Article</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/11/05/never-want-to-hear-it-again--america-is-not-a-racist-country--the-dream-is-realized.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">bce250d9-0d11-47d9-8651-1a781dec2d72</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:44:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Final Map by Tom Frank Studios</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/11/04/final-map-by-tom-frank-studios.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>A very interesting map. I personally believe McCain will grab Pennsylvania and put him over!&amp;nbsp; Get ready!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EMBED src=http://www.youtube.com/v/KptXrx0eMWk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1 width=425 height=344 type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt;</description><category>Article</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/11/04/final-map-by-tom-frank-studios.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">da281f03-610a-4c73-8f64-2ecb5a0c984c</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:47:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/09/22/sarah-palin-derangement-syndrome.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>There's been quite a bit of disinformation from the liberal left media.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In fact, they do a pretty good job of indoctrinating people.&amp;nbsp; Here's a recent retort on a real loon from YouTube:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EMBED src=http://www.youtube.com/v/9rnYftYb4no&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1 width=425 height=344 type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Here's another one to correct the liberal smear machine:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt;&lt;EMBED src=http://www.youtube.com/v/iY9mOa37Hik&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1 width=425 height=344 type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt;</description><category>Podcast</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/09/22/sarah-palin-derangement-syndrome.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">239d03fd-ac8a-4959-bf60-fa4c227133cf</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:48:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Weekly Electoral College Predictions - Sept. 17</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/09/22/weekly-electoral-college-predictions--sept-17.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>I want to thank Jacob Bodnar for this wonderful podcast.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Look for next week's podcast right here on PolySigh!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EMBED src=http://www.youtube.com/v/v_9Ja_SfEa4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1 width=425 height=344 type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt;</description><category>Podcast</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/09/22/weekly-electoral-college-predictions--sept-17.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">5fc68109-b653-4901-a98f-d0526d6ba2e6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:19:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Planned Parenthood Transcript  - Accepting Cash to Target Black Abortions</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/04/28/planned-parenthood-transcript---accepting-cash-to-target-black-abortions.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.laadvocate.com/Advocate3.pdf" target=_blank&gt;Transcripts from Ohio and Idaho calls&lt;BR&gt;to Planned Parenthood Development offices&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt; &lt;BR&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EMBED src=http://www.youtube.com/v/zwif0VMW3c4&amp;amp;hl=en width=425 height=355 type=application/x-shockwave-flash wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Ohio representative: Lisa Hutton, administrative assistant&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Ohio donor&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: There’s definitely way too many Black people in Ohio, so I am just trying to do my part.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;PP Rep&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: OK, whatever.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Ohio donor&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: Well, Blacks especially need abortions, so that’s what I’m trying to do.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;PP Rep&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: For whatever reason, we’ll accept the money.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Ohio donor&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: OK. Great, thank you.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Idaho representative: Autumn Kersey, director of development&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Idaho donor&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: The abortion—I can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the purpose?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;PP Rep&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that your gift be used to help an African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that the gift was earmarked for that purpose.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Idaho donor&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: Great, because I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don’t want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids. I just had a baby; I want to put it in his name. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;PP Rep&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: Yes, absolutely.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Idaho donor&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: And we don’t, you know we just think, the less black kids out there the better.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;PP Rep&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: Understandable, understandable.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Idaho donor&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: Right. I want to protect my son, so he can get into college&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GillSans,GillSans size=2&gt;
&lt;P&gt;PP Rep&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;: Alright. Excuse my hesitation, this is the first time I’ve had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I’m excited, and want to make sure I don’t leave anything out.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;To listen to the whole transcript, visit www.LAadvocate.com/pp&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;</description><category>Article</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/04/28/planned-parenthood-transcript---accepting-cash-to-target-black-abortions.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">d5722adc-1f70-42ea-b7f2-a88a167f2e58</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:56:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chicago Priest Living in "La-La Land"</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/04/03/chicago-priest-living-in-lala-land.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;"First of all, he (Muslim leader Louis Farrakahn) has not called Judaism a gutter religion and blood-suckers, because I have heard that talk." Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor Saint Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago, during an on the street interview with a Foxnews producer.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;- O'Reilly Factor; FoxNews Channel, 4/3/2008&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community," Farrakhan told Reuters Television in an interview recorded on October 4 and released Friday.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Farrakhan had other targets. "When the Jews left, the Palestinian Arabs came, Koreans came, Vietnamese...and we call them bloodsuckers," he continued. Farrakhan says he is neither racist nor anti-Semitic.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;CNN U.S. News - October 17, 1995 - &lt;A href="http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/9510/megamarch/10-17/notebook/" target=_blank&gt;"Million Man March"&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description><category>Religion</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/04/03/chicago-priest-living-in-lala-land.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">34d128aa-5d02-4e6d-84bc-c20305fad5d8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:48:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>OBAMA - Unplanned Babies are "Punishment"</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/31/obama--unplanned-babies-are-punishment.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>At a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon (3/29/2008), Barack Obama said these startling words:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EM&gt;"...I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, &lt;STRONG&gt;I don't want them punished with a baby.&lt;/STRONG&gt; "&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;If Unborn Babies ran for President, would they consider Barack Obama punishment as a grandfather?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"You'd rather have your granchild sucked into a sink."&amp;nbsp; -Dr. Laura Schlessinger</description><category>Politics</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/31/obama--unplanned-babies-are-punishment.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">406c8613-f733-4271-af46-a697a5853ce9</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:58:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Daily Kos Baits the stupid... again!</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/20/daily-kos-baits-the-stupid-again.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>&lt;BR&gt;Bomb throwing&amp;nbsp;Daily Kos throws another bit of rat bait on their website.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=diaryTitle&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/19/174127/728/841/480210" target=_blank&gt;Fox News publishes false "Black Panther" Endorsement&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;What is interesting is "Bradical" links to the article which quotes Shabazz&amp;nbsp;(Black Panther Party leader) stating they endorse Obama.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The KOS thinks it is more important to note that Obama's campaign rejected the endorsement, THEN makes the Foxnews story wrong, as significant.&amp;nbsp;Amateurs.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;</description><category>media</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/20/daily-kos-baits-the-stupid-again.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">14577cfa-0b82-4d63-8598-680a9440eb63</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:52:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jane Hall - O'Reilly Factor - Can Obama come back using "friendly" media?</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/20/jane-hall--oreilly-factor--can-obama-come-backusing-friendly-media.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;In a segment called "Weekdays with Bernie and Jane", Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly ask the liberal-leaning journalism professor Jane Hall a question. Possibly the first time in TV history a straight answer was given in political discussion. For this, we tip our hat to Jane Hall.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After commenting on the powerful images the Rev. Wright has produced in the media as well as the assertion that the sympathetic media is the only source Obama will give press time to, O'Reilly asked this question:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;O'Reilly: "Look, Jane, can (Obama) come back&amp;nbsp; in your opinion... just using the "friendly" media? Can he?"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jane Hall: "No, he cannot&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>media</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/20/jane-hall--oreilly-factor--can-obama-come-backusing-friendly-media.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">ffdcb6b9-93fb-4147-8cc3-ea336f2c63f0</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:26:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bernie Goldberg on O'Reilly Factor</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/20/bernie-goldberg-on-oreilly-factor.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>Bill O'Reilly asked contributor Bernie Goldberg about the effect of the speech given by Presidential Candidate, Barak Obama regarding race relations.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"... Look (Bill), it was a very good speech in many ways. It was beautifully written and flawlessly delivered and he went much further than anybody else in the world of politics speaking about race, but this man, Bill, is no Abraham Lincoln and for my money, sadly, he's not even Bill Cosby."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Bernie Goldberg, writer and media consultant and Fox News contributor. Quoted from The O'Reilly Factor, 3/20/2008</description><category>media</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/20/bernie-goldberg-on-oreilly-factor.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">5727973d-0934-4e0a-a0fa-18792e326b25</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:13:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What the Papers are saying about the "Not So Reverend" Wright</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/17/what-the-papers-are-saying-about-the-not-so-reverend-wright.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>&lt;H2&gt;Media pounces on Obama, Trinity UCC &lt;/H2&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/BLOGITEMTITLE&gt;
&lt;DIV class=posts id=$BlogItemNumber$&gt;
&lt;DIV style="CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;A href="http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1080428&amp;amp;srvc=home&amp;amp;position=3" target=_blank&gt;Joe Fitzgerald at the Boston Herald chimes in on the Obama - Wright controversy:&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;Obama, who claims the title of his second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” was inspired by Wright, is now audaciously hoping to defuse the latter’s inflammatory rhetoric by suggesting his comments were “part of his social gospel.”&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;It’s not going to fly. Even a smooth talker can’t get away with that.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;It’s true, Christianity does have a social gospel as well as a saving gospel, and no one personified the former more passionately or effectively than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who gave his life for it 40 years ago next month.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;To his everlasting credit, King called black extremism exactly what it is, which is every bit as evil and dangerous as white extremism, because neither side of that lunatic fringe moves us any closer to the common ground he died believing we could all attain.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Listening to Wright’s racially polarizing polemics is to realize Obama’s rationalization is ridiculous. Social gospel? Please. George Wallace, Lester Maddox and Orval Faubus all thought they had a social gospel, too.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Black or white, a nut is a nut.&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;A href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/03/two-wright-deci.html" target=_blank&gt;Andrew Sullivan on Obama renouncing Wright's comments:&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;This won't end the debate, and shouldn't. But it's a classy move. You don't disown a man this close to Obama's spiritual development over the years for political reasons. Obama's not a Clinton. But a more forceful explanation of why and how Obama rejects Wright's most inflammatory sound-bites would be helpful at some point. A bigger speech reiterating his own rejection of racial resentment would be even better - soon. Why not in a black church? [Sure, as long as it is not a campaign speech]&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;A href="http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/031708/edi_191183.shtml" target=_blank&gt;From the Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff:&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;Obama must not be given a pass on this. Any white candidate who clung to a warm relationship with a racist hate-monger would be put out of business by the media. &lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/opinion/17kristol.html?hp" target=_blank&gt;William Kristol in The New York Times:&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;It certainly could be the case that Obama personally didn’t hear Wright’s 2003 sermon when he proclaimed: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, not God bless America, God dxxx America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. ... God dxxx America for treating our citizens as less than human.”&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;But Ronald Kessler, a journalist who has written about Wright’s ministry, claims that Obama was in fact in the pews at Trinity last July 22. That’s when Wright blamed the “arrogance” of the “United States of White America” for much of the world’s suffering, especially the oppression of blacks. In any case, given the apparent frequency of such statements in Wright’s preaching and their centrality to his worldview, the pretense that over all these years Obama had no idea that Wright was saying such things is hard to sustain. &lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-03-16-obama_N.htm" target=_blank&gt;From USATODAY:&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;Critics say Obama may not have ended the controversy because he has had a relationship with Wright for nearly two decades. Obama had described Wright as his spiritual mentor. He was married in the church, and Wright was a member of Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"This is a man who he chose to be associated with. It's not a family member," said Juan Williams, a Fox News analyst and National Public Radio correspondent. "It could be a big problem."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;He said Obama's relationship with Wright "speaks to his character, and it speaks to the judgment which is the basis on which Barack Obama has been running." &lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9062.html" target=_blank&gt;And from Politico...&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;The church attended by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) fought back Sunday against mounting criticism of its pastor, accusing the media of character assassination and “crucifixion.”&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Otis Moss III, the current pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, used his pulpit to defend his congregation and its past minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., from a wave of controversy stemming from inflammatory statements made by Wright.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"We have listened and watched as the wonderful work of our church has been vilified this week," he told about 3,000 congregants on Palm Sunday morning. "This week should be special for us because I guess we know a little something about crucifixion." &lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=meta&gt;posted by UCCtruths, Monday, March 17, 2008&lt;/DIV&gt;</description><category>media</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/17/what-the-papers-are-saying-about-the-not-so-reverend-wright.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">e43e2440-7c08-4941-8d0b-7a1b7e4822a4</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:09:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>"Reverend" Wright is NOT Reverent nor Revered for Truth - He's just WRONG!</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/17/reverend-wright-is-not-reverent-nor-revered-for-truth--hes-just-wrong.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>In a publication from &lt;A href="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/12/obamas-controversial-pastor-puts-church-in-hot-water/" target=_blank&gt;FoxNews&lt;/A&gt;, and heard in a recording on &lt;A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNEfEBYIZs" target=_blank&gt;YouTube&lt;/A&gt;, Jeremiah Wright rants, and raves, a curses his (Obama's) congregation into a seething froth of hate. His pulpit is an embarassment to the blood of Christ!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;P&gt;“Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;“Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;“We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers. … We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. … We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. … We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;“And … And … And! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this shxx!”&lt;/P&gt;</description><category>Religion</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/17/reverend-wright-is-not-reverent-nor-revered-for-truth--hes-just-wrong.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">2808507f-0050-4d15-ac69-dc9fb0ee51e2</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:04:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Corporation Franken; Exception to the Rules</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/06/corporation-franken-exception-to-the-rules.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Stuart Smalley, aka Al Franken is running for office in Minnesota. In September during a DFL debate at Augsburg, MN (?), Franken said:&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EM&gt;“I’m a corporation, I employ a bunch of people.” Franken also said “I love corporations that play by the rules, and we have to make them play by the rules.” &lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Alan Franken Inc. was fined $25,000 in New York for failure to pay workers’ compensation insurance.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EMBED src=http://www.youtube.com/v/Fg6tNNm-aTc&amp;amp;rel=1&amp;amp;border=0 width=425 height=355 type=application/x-shockwave-flash wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Source: &lt;A href="http://minnesotademocratsexposed.com/" target=_blank&gt;http://minnesotademocratsexposed.com/ &lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description><category>Hollywood</category><category>Politicians</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/06/corporation-franken-exception-to-the-rules.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">8d2ea8b3-27bd-4897-ad71-aee4de813963</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:14:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>O'Reilly "Sniffing" for a Clue</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/06/oreilly-sniffing-for-a-clue.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;While interviewing two dog behaviorists, O'Reilly made this comment:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"&lt;EM&gt;Ok, dog body language, right? Ok, give me one hint that a dog doesn't like me.&amp;nbsp; Besides sayin, 'I watch CNN."&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel, 3/6/08&lt;/FONT&gt;</description><category>media</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/06/oreilly-sniffing-for-a-clue.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">23cad5c1-f8f2-4863-a242-56c4a2c57072</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:48:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Limbaugh Throws Fire - Chutzpah or Hatespah?</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/06/limbaugh-throws-fire--chutzpah-or-hatespah.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>&lt;EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"Let's say it's Hillary and Obama... Therefore, you've got a woman and a black; first time on the Democratic ticket...&amp;nbsp;(laughing...) They don't have a prayer."&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Rush Limbaugh Show, 3/6/2008</description><category>media</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/06/limbaugh-throws-fire--chutzpah-or-hatespah.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">4d11fc68-74cf-4878-913b-c2e4e87f6939</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:30:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>23/6 Blog Slams Evangelical Huckabee</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/05/236-blog-slams-evangelical-huckabee.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>Dirty, rotten scoundrels! That was a movie which Tom Hanks flopped his way away from our hearts, wasn't it?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;But, I degress... Here's&amp;nbsp;an exerpt from Dirt...er, uh 23/6 Weblog:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"When Mike Huckabee first announced his candidacy on &lt;EM&gt;Meet the Press&lt;/EM&gt; in January 2007, we knew little about him except that he looks kind of inbred.&amp;nbsp;"&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Source: &lt;A href="http://www.236.com/news/2008/03/05/huckaseeya_1_4919.php" target=_blank&gt;23/6&lt;/A&gt;</description><category>media</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/05/236-blog-slams-evangelical-huckabee.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">41631762-a943-46c1-98d4-66d4b70ae859</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:35:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>"Huffer" Just Doesn't Have a Clue</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/05/huffer-just-doesnt-have-a-clue.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>&lt;FONT size=3&gt;"While Bill Clinton is aplogizing &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;for not having done more to reduce the disparity in sentencing for crack and powder cocaine that is in part responsible for putting one in nine young black men in prison, his wife opposes even the most modest attempt to fix the problem."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/hillary-bill-and-obama-o_b_90062.html" target=_blank&gt;Huffington Post Contributor,&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;Maia Szalavitz&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Yes, Maia, and the disparity between legal immigration laws and illegal immigration laws is part responsible for putting more&amp;nbsp;Hispanics in prison than blacks. With this logic I'm sure you would agree that guns kill people and spoons make Rosie fat, right? Or is this subject matter just too complex for anyone but elite liberals to understand? Break a law, go to jail. Yeah, that's too complex. Sorry.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;You say the problem is the law, not people's behavior, right? Pass the spoon!&lt;/FONT&gt;</description><category>media</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/05/huffer-just-doesnt-have-a-clue.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">310cec31-64a3-4e0d-9ea5-a1d99c747a5b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:23:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Talk About Politically Incorrect  -  Gloria Steinem's Texas Talk Alienates The Whole Spectrum of Politics</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/03/talk-about-politically-incorrect----gloria-steinems-texas-talk-alienates-the-whole-spectrum-of-politics.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>Antique-esque feminist Gloria Steinhem showed off her 60's fixation by making two statements which made all politicians distance themselves from the grey-lady-liberal.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EM&gt;“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?’” &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;After endorsing Hillary in a stump speech in Austin, TX, the 73 year old made this comment which had Hillary's camp scrambling...&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EM&gt;“I am so grateful that she [Clinton] hasn’t been trained to kill anybody. And she probably didn’t even play war games as a kid. It’s a great relief from Bush in his jump suit and from Kerry saluting.”&lt;/EM&gt;</description><category>Hollywood</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/03/talk-about-politically-incorrect----gloria-steinems-texas-talk-alienates-the-whole-spectrum-of-politics.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">e5441545-1f16-471c-93de-6b29727fa806</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:04:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Republicans are Hillbillys  -  Branson Democratic Party Comments</title><link>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/03/republicans-are-hillbillys----branson-democratic-party-comments.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>Papa Bear</dc:creator><description>&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"I hate to use the word 'hillbilly,' but it's a hillbilly mentality and almost everyone is Republican and conservative around here."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;-Margie Carey, Secretary and Treasurer of the Taney County Democratic Committee. Source:&lt;A href="http://shop.newsmax.com/shop/index.cfm?page=products&amp;amp;categoryid=40" target=_blank&gt;NewsMax Magazine&lt;/A&gt;; March 2008; pg 36</description><category>Politicians</category><comments>http://pollysigh.listen2yourself.com/2008/03/03/republicans-are-hillbillys----branson-democratic-party-comments.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">36022778-6797-4996-b55d-36ffbefbfd09</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:39:02 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>