The police have responded to a hostage situation at the Clinton campaign office.

What, will they not let the brigadier general go?

New Hampshire. Somebody had taken somebody hostage at gunpoint at the Clinton campaign headquarters in Rochester, New Hampshire.

Now, folks, I don’t deny this is serious, but we also know that nothing that happens with the Clintons is coincidence. We have no information as to who this guy is, but my money is on a disgruntled husband. Anybody know where Bill is?

Now, this would be a great opportunity for the lessons of diplomacy to be taught and illustrated: negotiations.

Of course, Mrs. Clinton is the authority figure. She’s an American. So obviously this is her fault.our fault that they hate us, and so Mrs. Clinton needs to get on the phone with this guy and ask him, ” Well, I mean every enemy of ours, it’s Why do you hate me? Why do you hate us? What is your problem? What can I do to make you like me?”

This is what we’re told the Democrats want to do to in foreign policy. Let’s see it work in practical applications.

Yesterday in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Representative John Murtha held a video conference with reporters to talk about his trip to Iraq, from which he just returned.

MURTHA: I — I think — I think the surge is — is working.

What? What did he say?

MURTHA: I — I think — I think the surge is — is working

He said the surge is working. Jack Murtha says the surge is working.

I don’t care whether he’s now doing a CYA because the truth is obvious. The fact of the matter is this hurts Democrats.

Nancy Pelosi –– I don’t know this — my guess is she is furious, my guess is that Harry Reid‘s furious, because Murtha was the spear taker, Murtha was out there catching the spears everybody was throwing because he was leading the charges. He’s in a safe district and he was leading the charge and the surge isn’t working and our troops are criminals, and they’re rapists, and they’re murderers, and they’re muggers, and this sort of thing.

Now he says the surge is working. This could not be worse for the Democrats. James Clyburn, who is the House whip, and he’s chairman I think of the Congressional Black Caucus, said some months ago, “As a party we’ve got real problems if this thing turns around.” And they do have real problems with this.

Harry Reid, even now, offering legislation, as you know, to try to curb future Iraq funding unless it’s tied to troop withdrawals. He’s just been undercut here by Murtha, as has Pelosi.

Politico.com: “Murtha’s Comments on ‘Surge’ are a Problem for House Democrats.” Murtha, as you know, “one of the leading anti-war voices in the House Democratic Caucus, is back from a trip to Iraq and he now says the ‘surge is working.’ This could be a huge problem for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democratic leaders, who are blocking approval of the full $200 billion being sought by President Bush for combat operations in Iraq in 2008… a stark reversal from” previous positions.

I know a lot of people think he’s just playing CYA here, because what’s happening on the ground is obvious and it’s at such variance with his prior positions. Whether he’s CYA or not with whatever he’s saying here, he was the spear-taker. He was the guy catching the arrows out there because he was safe. Now, he’s blown the cover here. It does present the Democrats with a problem. Previously, back in July, Murtha had said it’s delusion.

Meet the Press, March 4th, 2007. The question from Russert: “Do you believe that unless the violence subsides, our troops should come home within six months?

MURTHA: Yeah, they’re in a civil war! We’re caught in a civil war! Any way you look at it it’s a civil war. I supported, uh, an extra 200,000 troops in Vietnam when I came back from Vietnam. Uh, it did work. This is not working. It — it’s one of those things, the surge just won’t work, and that’s what we believe, and I think in the end, they can’t say you’ll see what will happen. There’s too much optimism about this whole thing. We need to get this thing out of the way!

That’s just back in March. And now Murtha is saying, “I think the surge is working.”

May 1st-o7, Hardball with Chris Matthews.

Question: “Why wouldn’t the [General Petraeus] tell the truth? Why is he blaming it on Al-Qaeda, the people who blew up the World Trade Center? Why is he doing that?”

MURTHA: This whole war — ever since I diverted the attention away from where Al-Qaeda started, eh, eh, the Taliban in Afghanistan — the war in Iraq — where we should have stayed. Ever since that time, uh, they — they were trying to tie this in to terrorism. All of us know there’s, uh, there’s, uh terrorism all over the world.

MATTHEWS: But he’s not — but, Congressman, he’s not a PR man. He’s not a flak for the White House. He’s a general in the field. Why would he be…

MURTHA: Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

MATTHEWS: You’re saying he’s singing this song of the ideologues.

MURTHA: I’m saying he came back here at the White House’s request to purely make, uh, political statements. That’s what I’m saying. There’s no question in my mind about it!
Democrats are fully discredited. We now know, it’s blatant: They are not qualified to lead this country.

Mrs. Clinton is running a competence election. “We can do it better. We are this, we are that.” She hasn’t done anything right, from health care, to managing the Paula Jones case; bimbo eruptions are about it, and she missed a couple. She missed more than a couple.

The idea these people are more competent — look at the programs they’ve given us: Social Security, Medicare, the war on poverty, we’re going broke because of these programs, not the military, we’re going broke because of the redundancy of programs that keep way too many productive Americans on the dole.

There’s nothing competent about liberal Democrats whatsoever. They’re the most incompetent, destructive people running around. I don’t care about their good intentions, folks. They are ruining this country! They are literally ruining it, and for us to sit around all cowering in the corner in fear because we think she is going to win and so forth and we can’t win a competence election, give me a break! Can’t win a competence election, these people couldn’t spell “competence” if they had to to survive.

Jack Murtha has clarified his remarks, ladies and gentlemen.

“House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha (D-Pa.) has taken the unusual step of publicly clarifying his remark that the ‘surge is working’ in Iraq.”

— You just know that Nancy Pelosi had steam and smoke coming out of her ears.

“The clarification came after House Republicans circulated an article about Murtha’s comments written in Friday’s edition of his home-state Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after a teleconference from Murtha’s Johnstown, Pa., office. In addition to saying that the surge is working, the Post-Gazette reported, Murtha called the Iraqi government ‘dysfunctional’ and said, ‘The thing that has to happen is the Iraqis have to do this themselves. We can’t win it for them.’ … This morning Murtha issued the following statement through his spokesman: ‘The military surge has created a window of opportunity for the Iraqi government. Unfortunately, the sacrifice of our troops has not been met by the Iraqi government and they have failed to capitalize on the political and diplomatic steps that the surge was designed to provide. The fact remains that the war in Iraq cannot be won militarily, and that we must begin an orderly redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq as soon as practicable.”

MURTHA: I — I think — I think the surge is — is working.

That just can’t stand in the Democrat Party. Some Democrats might be able to say it and not have Nancy Pelosi go nuts. When Murtha says it, he has to clarify. So he’s made a pointed effort to get this clarification out, and he has done so, and there will be nobody to convince me otherwise that he was taken to the woodshed. He was taken to the woodshed by Pelosi and her minions in there in the speaker’s office.

Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, runs a website called Number Watch. He has compiled what has to be the most complete collection of links to media stories ascribing the cause of everything under the sun to global warming. He has already posted more than six-hundred links to media stories blaming X, whatever it is, on global warming.

• American Thinker: Everything is Caused by Global Warming (600+ links)

You can click on every one of these links and read the story and see how every one of these things is being blamed on global warming.

Agricultural land increase, Africa devastated, African aid threatened, Africa hit hardest, air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, Antarctic grass flourishes, anxiety, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic lakes disappear, asthma, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, atmospheric defiance, atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, bananas destroyed, bananas grow, beetle infestation, bet for $10,000, better beer, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, bird visitors drop, birds return early, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, bluetongue, boredom, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain Siberian, British gardens change, brothels struggle, bubonic plague, budget increases, Buddhist temple threatened, building collapse, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cancer deaths in England, cardiac arrest, caterpillar biomass shift, challenges and opportunities, childhood insomnia, Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, cockroach migration, cod go south, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink , cold spells, cost of trillions, cougar attacks, cremation to end, crime increase, crocodile sex, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, cyclones (Australia), damages equivalent to $200 billion, Darfur, Dartford Warbler plague, death rate increase (US), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, diseases move north, Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early marriages, early spring, earlier pollen season, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth spins faster, Earth to explode, earth upside down, Earth wobbling, earthquakes, El Niño intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (human, civilisation, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, ladybirds, bats, pandas, pikas, polar bears, pigmy possums, gorillas, koalas, walrus, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang-utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage, famine, farmers go under, fashion disaster, fever,figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flesh eating disease, flood patterns change, floods, floods of beaches and cities, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, food prices rise, food security threat (SA), footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frostbite, frosts, fungi fruitful, fungi invasion, games change, Garden of Eden wilts, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes, glacial retreat, glacial growth, glacier wrapped, global cooling, global dimming, glowing clouds, god melts, golf Masters wrecked, Gore omnipresence, grandstanding, grasslands wetter, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, hazardous waste sites breached, health of children harmed, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes (Australia), heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, homeless 50 million, hornets, high court debates, human development faces unprecedented reversal, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, human health risk, hurricanes, hurricane reduction, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, illness and death, inclement weather, infrastructure failure (Canada), Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, industry threatened, infectious diseases, inflation in China, insurance premium rises, invasion of cats, invasion of herons, invasion of midges, island disappears, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, kitten boom, krill decline, lake and stream productivity decline, lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful, lawyers’ income increased (surprise surprise!), lightning related insurance claims, little response in the atmosphere, lush growth in rain forests, Lyme disease, Malaria, malnutrition, mammoth dung melt, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, marine dead zone, Meaching (end of the world), megacryometeors, Melanoma, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, melting permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration, migration difficult (birds), microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows, monuments imperiled, more bad air days, more research needed, mountain (Everest) shrinking, mountains break up, mountains taller, mortality lower, mudslides, National security implications, new islands, next ice age, Nile delta damaged, no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom, oaks move north, ocean acidification, ocean waves speed up, opera house to be destroyed, outdoor hockey threatened, oyster diseases, ozone loss, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, Pacific dead zone, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, phenology shifts, plankton blooms, plankton destabilised, plankton loss, plant viruses, plants march north, polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears drowning, polar bears starve, polar tours scrapped, porpoise astray, profits collapse, psychosocial disturbances, puffin decline, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rainfall reduction, rape wave, refugees, reindeer larger, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rice threatened, rice yields crash, riches, rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war, rivers dry up, river flow impacted, rivers raised, roads wear out, rockfalls, rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, Ross river disease, ruins ruined, salinity reduction, salinity increase, Salmonella, salmon stronger, satellites accelerate, school closures, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, seals mating more, sewer bills rise, sex change, sharks booming, sharks moving north, sheep shrink, shop closures, shrinking ponds, shrinking shrine, ski resorts threatened, slow death, smaller brains, smog, snowfall increase, snowfall heavy, snowfall reduction, societal collapse, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, space problem, spiders invade Scotland, squid population explosion, squirrels reproduce earlier, spectacular orchids, stormwater drains stressed, street crime to increase, suicide, taxes, tectonic plate movement, teenage drinking, terrorism, threat to peace, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tourism increase, trade barriers, trade winds weakened, tree beetle attacks, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed, trees could return to Antarctic, trees in trouble, trees less colourful, trees more colourful, trees lush, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, tsunamis, turtles crash, turtles lay earlier, UK Katrina, Vampire moths, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions, walrus displaced, walrus pups orphaned, war, wars over water, wars threaten billions, water bills double, water supply unreliability, water scarcity (20% of increase), water stress, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weeds, Western aid cancelled out, West Nile fever, whales move north, wheat yields crushed in Australia, white Christmas dream ends, wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, wine – harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine – more English, wine -German boon, wine – no more French , winters in Britain colder, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World bankruptcy, World in crisis, World in flames, Yellow fever.

Isn’t this, what everyone has been seeking? The real cause.

Well, there you have it.

Can’t stop laughing, too Funny!

“Nearly two-thirds of Americans do not trust press coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, according to a new Harvard University survey, which also revealed four out of five people believe coverage focuses too much on the trivial — and more than 60% believe coverage is politically biased.”

Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership National Leadership Index

More than 60% don’t trust campaign coverage, and what happened on CNN last night is a clear illustration of why.

Some people are saying, “CNN didn’t plant anything. They’re not that sophisticated. They’re not that organized.”

Some people have a theory that, “You know, it’s just a result of groupthink. These people are all librals, and they have a view of conservatism — and their view of conservatism is that conservatives are kooks and weirdos and oddballs, and so when they see a question like this from Keith Kerr and some of these other people, they don’t think anything about it because they think everybody looks at conservatives the way they do, and so they don’t vet.”

I don’t care what the theory is. CNN doesn’t win no matter what the explanation. If they didn’t know that this guy was who he is and some of these other questioners that they chose were who they were, what does it say about them? They’re a news organization; they’re supposed to know things before anybody else does! They’re not supposed to be informed by one of their commentators during an after-show that one of their guest appearances was a plant or a Hillary operative, and act surprised about it. If they did know all of this and still went ahead with it, it means their elitism and arrogance is such that they don’t care. I have to believe they’re a little upset about this today, though, because this goes right to their image as a news organization. Forget “unbiased,” because that’s gone out the window a long time ago.

After that opening with this idiot who sang a song — did you guys see this? The opening YouTube video was a guy playing the guitar singing lyrics with his opinions of all the candidates. And, of course, the cameras cut to each of the candidates while this guy’s song is playing, and, of course, they have to smile and so forth. If I had been on that stage and if I had been a serious contender for president, after that, I would have said, “Mr. Cooper, we are running for the presidency of the United States, and this is very serious, and you are making a joke out of this, and I’m going to go somewhere where I can discuss this seriously,” and I’d walk off the stage. And I would be leading the pack, today.

We sat there last night and I think there’s a defensiveness, “Well, we gotta answer these questions. We gotta look good. We gotta do this.” I didn’t see a whole lot of aggressiveness other than when Mitt went after Rudy and vice-versa and so forth. McCain took some pretty good shots at Ron Paul on the war once they got to that subject.

But this was a joke. I mean, it’s not hard to rise above a joke.

Give me a break, gays in the military. When has that been an issue of any prominence recently? There was another question about homosexuality, the Log Cabin Republican guy. And then the Confederate flag, that’s long ago. Those things are all clichéd.

This presidential campaign is not about the Confederate flag, it’s not about gays in the military, it’s not about whether somebody’s read every word in the Bible, and it’s not about what would Jesus would say.

Immigration, the first thing out of the box, immigration. I hope, if you did watch this, I hope you noticed just how dominant that issue is and how important that issue is, the audience reaction to it. That was for me probably the highlight of this. Well, one thing that never came up last night was taxes, and they didn’t bring up taxes. I’m telling you, based on what’s happening around the country and these referenda that took place earlier this month, taxes, tax increases, are as big an issue as immigration is if the Republicans can make it so, in an effective way.

For CNN, there’s a pattern here of this kind of plants, and then they act like they didn’t know. This is worse than when NBC blew up the truck on Dateline to make it look like if you buy one you’re going to die. They made it look like it was a spontaneous explosion when they blew it up.

COOPER: Bill Bennett earlier mentioned that he was getting some reports from, uh, friends of his on the Internet that, uh, Brigadier General Keith Kerr — who asked a question about gays in the military during this debate — was on a, uh, steering committee for, uh, Senator Hillary Clinton. Uh, that was certainly something unknown to us. We have just looked at it. Apparently there was a press release from some six months ago, Hillary, uh, Clinton office, uh, saying that he had been named to some steering committee. We don’t know if he’s still on it. We’re trying to find out that information. But certainly had we had that information, uh, we would have, uh, acknowledged that in, uh, in using his question, if we had used it at all.

This is an organization that claims it’s journalistic, fair and objective.

We know it’s not.

It’s a fraud. I’m telling you, their arrogance and elitism aside, they have got to be disturbed by this today. But there’s a pattern. How are we ever going to trust anything like this CNN ever does again?

But I want to call your attention to some things. There was a YouTube question, an animated question from an editorial cartoonist. The editorial cartoonist caricatured Dick Cheney, and the animated cartoon question on YouTube, Cheney, was asking these Republican candidates if their vice presidential candidate would have as much power as he does.

Now, where the hell does that come from if not a convicted liberal bias?

If I had been on that stage, after watching that, I would have said to Anderson Cooper, “Mr. Cooper, I’m running for president of the United States, and I am not going to sit here and let you and this network caricature and mischaracterize the vice president of the United States. He is a great man. He has served his country in public service for decades, and the last seven years, and the attempts to destroy him are simply unacceptable and intolerable — and for you to facilitate this in the form of a debate about the future of this country, is something I resent, and I’m not going to deal with answering your question because it’s bogus,”

…and I would be leading in the polls today.

Remember the last debate that the Democrats did with Tim Russert moderating, and the simple, harmless little policy question of Mrs. Clinton about illegal aliens getting driver’s licenses in New York? Do you remember the storm that erupted that night and the next day.

“How dare Russert go personal! How dare Tim Russert launch a personal attack! Why, I’m going to make sure that Wolf Blitzer doesn’t “Russert” Hillary!” Blitzer got warned at CNN — and, by the way, what did we get during that CNN debate? We got the Clinton News Network on full display, giving her a total pass. Planted questions, of course.

Now, after the debate, I’m not hearing anybody say, “ Well, these questions were a little odd, these little setups,” this, that, and the other things. People are talking about how the YouTube people, some of them were plants and might have been Democrat activists and so forth, but nobody’s talking about the absolute ludicrous nature of the questions.

I will guarantee you the base of the party that watched this last night, had to be as livid as I am with just the total nature and tone of the questions that were asked, because it clearly illustrated what CNN (and Democrats and liberals; they’re all the same), think of conservatives.

If I didn’t know better, Democrats wrote the questions, or CNN wrote the questions. What’s the difference?

There isn’t much of a difference.

The Media can take any news story and turn it into a disaster, such as the news that the average home price has fallen 4.5% in the last measuring period, right?

So this is supposed to be a cause for panic.

“Oh, no! The subprime lending market is going down the tubes. Home prices are falling! Abu Dhabi is infusing cash into Citigroup! Oh, no! Oh, woe is us.”

Wait a second! How about for people who aren’t able to afford houses and now might be able to because the price is down 4.5%?

These fluctuations happen constantly, and yet what’s great about it is, it seems that the American consumer is not playing this time.

Seems like they’re not playing along with all of the doom and gloom.