Yet another proof of POTUS media manipulation

When a liberal columnist like Helen Thomas - which I was quite unfamiliar with until yesterday - refuses to be muzzled by The White House manipulations, well... I guess that says it all, right?

The Media Research Center is congratulating her. And after yesterday's rant, that is flying all over the net, during an interview with CNSNews.com, she blasted:

“Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try.“What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”

Thomas said she was especially concerned about the arrangement between the Obama Administration and a writer from the liberal Huffington Post Web site. The writer was invited by the White House to President Obama’s press conference last week on the understanding that he would ask Obama a question about Iran from among questions that had been sent to him by people in Iran.

“When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you,” Thomas said.“I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well--for the town halls, for the press conferences,” she said. “It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame.”

Really? How come nobody have noticed it before we have been having a State Run Media, biased and blindly in bed with the current administration and its cronies, waaaay before election day?

I guess only these crazy, right-wingers Cuban Americans - who, BTW, know a thing or two about censorship and state-run media - and their American conservatives allies were the only ones seeing the fireball that was coming...

Oh, boy... the more one stirs the landfill, the more it stinks.

Slapping POTUS' face; no speeches needed

Sign reads: We are not Chávez's puppets)

This photo says it all. It's from El Nuevo Herald article on the interim government decision to suspend some constitutional guaranties in order to regulate protests.

Rolando Dubon, congressman from the Liberal Party - Manuel Zelaya's own party - explains (my own translation):

"This is being done (because) there is a risk that there are many people from other countries in Honduras, and there is the concern that they could try actions against the citizenry and the new government," although he didn't gave more details about the presence of foreigners.

People I know with relatives in Honduras have been telling me that it's vox populi the fact that many Venezuelans are organizing protests pro-Zelaya in Honduras territory.

And knowing myself who Chávez and his thugs coaches on public demonstrations are ... should I connect the dots?

The Drudge Report posted this Reuter's story on Honduras resisting pressure from everywhere - including the US administration - to allow Zelaya's return. Double standard, anyone?

Crash course notice

Could we forward this crash-course on the events in Honduras to POTUS, please?

IMHO, a little bit of education on the topic wouldn't be harmful...

At least a post it note, delivered via Gibbs, with a summary blurb about this "democratic coup"?

It's like knocking in a stone-deaf's door - maybe they are too busy hiding ACORN scandals, naming Czars and ousting IG's that have discovered the putrid smell of the current administration ways to do business?

Aaaggg!

The country we have become

A few lonely rangers in this former profession of mine still have some ethics and decency - and guts, if I may add.

Gibbs is the worst clown of this circus we've got ourselves into...



May be not every thing is lost?

Not quite sure after seeing this other; a formal declaration on the life that lies ahead under a gangster's government:



I want to keep the faith in the American people, I want to believe that most of us will not allow this administration to take us to the road of destruction, I really want to believe so...

It's just that some days is harder than usual...

H/T to at Babalu Blog

Honduras: Let's set the record straight, shall we? UPDATED

As I’ve mentioned before –countless times – the former MSM, a.k.a. SRM, is not telling the whole story about the events that unfolded in Honduras last week.

One more time, they have been in the tank with the wannabe dictators of Latin America and their Kool-Aid drinkers lovers in the rest of the world; POTUS included – despite babbling Castro saying it was a “yanqui coup”, go figure!

Similarly to the protests in Iran, this time Twitter and the Internet have played the best role reflecting the events in Honduras. Fausta’s Blog has an excellent coverage and updates on the events. (H/T to Babaly Blog)

So, for the sake of accuracy, let’s say it: what happened in Honduras, was not, technically, a military coup. It was a presidential coup.

It was Manuel (Mel) Zalaya, Honduras' democratically elected president, who tried to overstep the Constitution, calling to a referendum to perpetuate his mandate. (In case you were wondering who are Zelaya’s lifestyle coaches: Hugo “Monkey” Chávez, the Castro brothers and the entire leftist claque that blooms in Latin America under Venezuela’s petrodollars and Cuba’s brainwashing machine.)

Assisted by Chávez, who did the same in Venezuela, Zelaya wanted to call a “survey” to change the terms for the presidential seat. According to Honduras’s Constitution, a referendum is legal, but it can not be unilaterally conducted by the president; it has to be called by a special constitutional group (constituyente) created by Congress.

When Congress and the Honduran Supreme Court told Zelaya this, and ruled his attempt as unconstitutional, the boy got mad and promptly, Chávez printed out the ballots in Venezuela and flew them to Honduras in a Venezuelan air force plane.

They did start the process in some points of the country and when the Supreme Court noticed Zelaya defied its ruling, issued an order to the Honduran Army to stop the process, to take custody of Zelaya and to deport him from the national territory.

Think about this:
What would have happen in the US if the current president decides to call a referendum to eliminate presidential terms, the Supreme Court issues an order telling him not to do so and he continues to pursue his objective? Impeachment and destitution, at least, right? - Well, I hope.

Putting the last nail to the coffin, Obama's administration, one more time, lost a golden opportunity to show what they truly should stand for. Well, actually, I guess he did a clear statement, on the opposite direction.

Mary Anastasia O’Grady weights in for WSJ, both in English and Spanish. Links to her column in English has been passing on Tweeter since late Saturday night.

Some might see unfortunate that the army got involved, but again, they did it following orders from the Supreme Court.

At the same time, the country must return to its constitutional order and democratic goverment ASAP; if not, they run the risk to have all these efforts to preserve the rule of law completely wasted.

On the other hand, Hondurans in the US are expressing support to the Supreme Court ruling and their homeland Constitution, and they want to drawn the negative stories about the incident.
A Honduran man that moved to US 15 years ago has the golden quote:

"We're all energized,'' said Mauricio Andino, who moved from the country's capital, Tegucigalpa, 15 years ago. "We're a little country showing the world that we will not stand for communism, and we will not be bullied by what any of those other communists have to say about us."

Unfortunately, Andino’s priority seems to be missing from OAS’s agenda – after all, Inzulza owes his post to Chavez and they’re all in bed with longest communist dictatorship in the region. Let's say it is more or less the same thing that is happening with the wicked priorities’ list of the current US administration.

UPDATE:
Charles Krauthammer, On The Corner at NRO, has an excellent crash-course on how and why Obama and his administration should re-examine their assumptions.

Also at NRO, Mona Charen asks "Did someone say coup?", and provides more background on Chávez dirty games to throw Venezuela in the abyss of socialism.

Tales of a Cuban-American tot

For the past three or four months, we've been embarked in one of the most life saving missions on planet earth, one that also aim to keep this Cuban mami over here with an un-shattered wallet: potty training.

(Well, that is if our growing by the second government does not vanishes it first, but that is another story...)

Anyway, whoever has gone through this phase of toddlerhood, knows a thing or two about night time leaks.

We're just starting this business and my kiddo is a calf - yes, he drinks a gallon of milk in two days, which have had me considering to bring a cow from the nearby dairy farm and tie it to his bed at night.

Ergo, he is still using Pampers to sleep. But sometimes, specially when he overdoes the milk, we have leaks; like happened last night.

This morning he came kind of upset, urging me to change his clothes quickly. "Mamá, quítame este piyama, que está sucio de pipi". Then I tried to settle him down, telling it was not a big deal, and so on. I explained him that the "pipi" leaked because last night he took milk twice and that was too much for only one diaper.

[Kleenex alert here]

And then my dear son, my baby, said: "Mamá, sorry que yo tomé leche dos veces anoche". [Mom, sorry that I drank milk twice last night.]

I went like, Whaattt??!! "Honey, you don't have to feel sorry for having had milk twice, you can have all the bottles of milk that you want at night, it does not matter that pipi leaks next morning, we can always wash the sheets", I said in Spanish, with a knot in my throat.

See, my son has the heart of a giant. I know all mothers say those things about their children, but - on top of being raised saying "please", "sorry" and "thank you", in both languages - this kiddo of mine has a heart that is way too big for his age. He is very caring.

But it broke my heart when he said that because I couldn't help to think how that scene would have played out had he been born in Cuba.

Back there in el terruño, children receive milk through the rationing card only until they are seven. Enter second grade and gone it is.

Right there starts your average Cuban parent nightmare to get, at any cost in the black market, the powdered milk to keep up your children nutrition, at least at the minimum.

No dollars, no relatives living abroad, no job in tourism, not in the high ranks of the Communist Party, no in the military or in the highest government elites? Sorry, no milk for your kids after they are seven.

And here I was, with my two and a half year old apologizing for drinking milk twice...

By now, my doctor is aware of almost all types of PTSD this Cuban Mom suffers, but I believe this was first one I laid on the table for her: I know it is against doctor's recommendations here, but as long as my son is hungry, I will never deny him milk. I don't care about sleeping through the night. I don't care about going too often to the dentist in the future. If he wakes up and ask for it, it means to me he is hungry and wants it, therefore, he will have it.

After all, that was the entire purpose of me leaving my entire life and loved ones behind; not only looking for a free a better future for me, but to guarantee a freer and better future for my children. Milk at any age included.