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In this corner – Ben Shapiro and Sarah Palin…


First it was Ben Shapiro. Now it is the futile attempts to dredge dirt through Sarah Palin’s emails. I think the chest-beating rhetoric of the left leaning entertainment and media hacks have to think about formulating responses. Ben Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda outed what many have suspected for a long time – that prime time television has a deep seated left ideologue mantra running through it. Anti Vietnam themes, feminism, gay rights and lampooning right wing politics are all core themes of sitcoms, movies and documentaries from Hollywood.

I must admit I often let these themes coat me over without any serious reflection or thoughts.

Take the Tina Fey impersonation – belittling – of Sarah Palin. I’d laugh along and probably believe most of what Tina Fey suggested Sarah Palin said or think.

Apparently the line that Sarah Palin could see Russia from her house was entirely fictitious – made up by Tina Fey. There was no disclaimer however and that has now become popular folklore. Sarah Palin may not be the brightest or most sophisticated but how many of us are?

The 24,000 pages of emails journalists trawled through in Alaska – in the obvious attempt to find more material to either fuel night time stand up comedians or discredit any attempt by her to stake a position against the left – suggest she is just an ordinary hard working and decent family person, with perhaps one big difference from those who stand against her. She has traditional moral values and she is not afraid to speak up for them. She may have flaws and may have made mistakes – how many of us haven’t – but that she strives on in spite of these flaws, speak of her strength. Those journalists went through extraordinary lengths to find damaging material. Is this what left leaning liberalism represent?

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US sovereign risk downgraded?


Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has done to the US what it did to AIG 2 ½ years ago. Well, sort of. Unbelievably, it effectively handed over a vote of no confidence in US political leaders to deal with the crazy deficits which have been growing on a massive scale.

Uncle Sam has been pawning to the hilt and is no longer deemed stable by the international bond market. Obama has managed to back Normandy back to the Krauts and Germany and France now rank higher than the Yanks!

I was watching the news a couple of weeks back on this issue and one of the Republican lawmakers was saying she wasn’t going to continue signing off borrowings from China to fund abortions carried out in the US.

This is just one of a range of issues creating a huge divide between the Republicans and Democrats, making approval of budgets increasingly difficult. I have not been folllowing the issues closely so I don’t know if this chasm is what’s causing S&P’s warning.

Maybe we have just witnessed the trigger to bury the greenback as a global currency and usher in the “Red Back” that is the Renminbi as its replacement. Will the Chinese now firmly stake its claim as the No 1 economic powerhouse of the world today?

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