Michael Ryan Admits Tea Baggers are Gullible/Stupid

Re: "Truth just isn't in the cards," from the April 30th edition of the Augusta Chronicle editorial page.

Mary Schorsch very cleverly was handing out red, white, and blue cards at Augusta's latest tea party asking the tea baggers to fill out a form saying they want to discontinue their Social Security, Medicare, etc. because they were socialist programs.

One of the reasons Mr. Ryan takes issue with this is because the cards are in a patriotic color. As if only conservatives are allowed to use patriotic colors.

Mr. Ryan felt it necessary to warn Tea Baggers not to fill out the card. This is an inadvertent admission that Tea Baggers are gullible and stupid.

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Below the above mentioned mess, we have another column from Michelle Malkin, another reliable shithead.

She claims that the Mexican government bars foreigners if the "equilibrium of national demographics" is upset.

This is nonsense. The Mexican government happily welcomes any rich white people from the U.S. who want to retire there and spend money.

I can't believe any newspaper prints her ridiculous columns.

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Mr. Ryan won a homeboy award issued by the Augusta Rotary Club. Something named after some Augusta Chronicle editorialist who probably wrote anti-desegragation columns for 30 years.

I didn't know plagiarism wins awards.

On this blog I've documented 4 cases of Mr. Ryan's plagiarism.

See: 1. The Drudge Report
2. An anonymous chain email.
3. Kathryn Lopez of the National Review
4. Glenn Beck

Mr. Ryan is now an award winning plagiarist.

Michael Ryan Wonders if Common Sense will Prevail when He Has None Himself

Re: "Will common sense prevail?" from the February 7th edition of the Augusta Chronicle editorial page.

Once again, Mr. Ryan is freaked out about the budget deficit.  Yet, a few weeks ago, he suggested an income tax moratorium.  As I've written before, he has no credibility on this issue because he actually thinks eliminating taxes would be a viable policy.

It's true the U.S. government needs to reign in spending, but it's necessary to increase taxes as well to help balance the budget. Increasing taxes is politically unpopular, virtually dooming any political party that supports this as a method of reducing the deficit.  Until we get politicians with the guts to increase taxes and cut government spending, the budget will continue to spiral out of control.  

Note that Mr. Ryan mentions Social Security and Medicare as programs that cost too much, but he makes no mention of the illegal, immoral, and unnecessary war in Iraq.

Conservatives just have no integrity.  Helping out our fellow man is a waste of money, but blowing him to smithereens is untouchable spending and not even included in the official budget.  How obscene.  

The related editorial below Mr. Ryan's, written by Charles Krauthammer is entitled "The Great Peasant Revolt."  This is in reference to the Tea Party movement.  The Tea Party just paid Sarah Palin $100,000 to make a speech.  I doubt peasants can afford to pay that much just to hear a nervous schoolgirl criticize our president for having a good education which is what she did when she said, "We need a commander and chief, not a Harvard Lawyer."  The statement was received with cheers.

This quote and the positive response proves that Tea Party nuts think intelligence and education are bad things.

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Re: "Greedy union fat cats are behind first lady's anti-obesity campaign," by Michelle Malkin from the February 5th edition of the Augusta Chronicle.

Ms. Malkin writes about the "evils" of school lunches in this column.  She's critical of the SEIU, an organization that represents school cafeteria workers.  What's she afraid of--that a school cafeteria worker might make a dollar?

Ms. Malkin has no credibility whatsoever.  Mr. Ryan should be ashamed of himself for letting this ridiculous woman spew her stupid opinions on his page.

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Mr. Ryan has yet to retract his factually challenged column which I noted in my last blog entry. BTW, I contacted Alan English the managing editor of the news department.  He informed me that he has nothing to do with the editorial page, so I retract my statement suggesting he approves of Mr. Ryan's plagiarisms.

There.  I admitted I was wrong about something.

Will Michael Ryan?

Michael Ryan Whines again about Leftist Pundits Giving Tit for Tat

Re: "Attacking with Acid," from the Augusta Chronicle editorial page of October 16th.

Just 12 days ago, in an unsigned column I commented on here, Mr. Ryan was complaining that the left was guilty of name-calling. The left is only guilty of giving the right some of its own medicine, and apparently, this causes Mr. Ryan to whine regularly about it, because here again is another column crying about how vicious left wing pundits are. Mr. Ryan must be running out of ideas, if he so frequently returns to this subject.

Today, Mr. Ryan took issue with Keith Olbermann when he made Michelle Malkin one of his "Worst Persons in the World." He called Ms. Malkin a "mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascisitic, without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed up bag of meat with lip-stick on it."

Of course, Mr. Ryan completely leaves out the reason why Mr. Olbermann attacked her. Ms. Malkin falsely accused Ms. Carney-Nunez of writing and directing the "Obama Song," that elementary school children sang in New Jersey. You know, the one that's got conservatives so hot under the collar about indoctrination, that they're sending protestors to the school to frighten the children. It turns out Ms. Carney-Nunez had nothing to do with the song, but as a result of Ms. Malkin's false accusation, she's received death threats and hundreds of pieces of hate mail.

Taken in context, Mr. Olbermann's criticism of Ms. Malkin is justifiable. Mr. Ryan's a Christian who has attended his fair share of Sunday school classes. I'm sure he's aware of the evils of bearing false witness.

Mr. Ryan then blames liberals for derailing Rush Limbaugh's bid to become part owner of the Rams. This is entirely false. It's the conservative owners of the other NFL teams who didn't want to have such a polarizing individual causing controversy for their milk-toast product.

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Oh and Mr. Ryan just happened to run Ms. Malkin's column today--"Who's Behind the White House War on Fox News? Corruptocrats."

Once again, her column is full of outright falsehoods. She claims Fox is the one news outlet not in President Obama's pocket. To support this ridiculous, unfounded argument, she cites the example of CNN fact-checking a Saturday Night Live skit that was critical of the President. She obviously didn't watch the segment--her source must have been some other conservative pundit. I did watch that segment. CNN sided with the Saturday Night Live skit, not President Obama.

Furthermore, she claims the "press gurus" keep Obama from looking thuggish. Thuggish? There's nothing thuggish at all about the Obama administration, except for maybe in her own paranoid dreams that she shares with the Glenn Becks of the world.

Her case that the Obama administration is full of corruptocrats because a few worked on a failed re-election bid for ex-Senator Daschle is also weak and generally unfounded.

She finishes off with another false claim--that "conservatives are reveling in the left's hysteria over Fox News Channel's dominance." Fox News hardly dominates the media. Compared to the combined ratings of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC, its ratings are minuscule. And its demographic is pretty much limited to old, white conservatives.

Michael Ryan should drop Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin's column today was mean-spirited, pointless, and unfounded.

When Ms. Obama commented about how hard people have been working to bring the olympics to Chicago, the little voices in Ms. Malkin's head translated that into a case of self-absorption. Her statement's was completely unfounded.

Ms. Malkin's been accusing the Obama's of a big scandal of cronyism because they know some people who might've made money, if the olympics had been given to the city of Chicago.

So the Obamas know somebody who might've made money on a sports deal. Big deal. I'd hardly call that cronyism, expecially compared to when George W. Bush put coal mining and oil drilling executives into the Interior department and the office of the Vice-president. Moreover, the accusation is just unfounded.

Ms. Malkin's criticisms of the first lady are petty and pointless and not worth printing in any newspaper.

How this Asian-American woman (who thinks the Japanese internment during World War II was justified) can have a nationally syndicated column is a wonder.

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I didn't disagree with Mr. Ryan's editorial today about second hand smoke, but I did find a couple of the letters appearing on his editorial page kind of amusing. Brian Martin was rebutting a pro-abortion letter. He believed he was falsifying the pro-abortion letter writer's statement that the government can't tell a woman what to do with her body by citing anti-prostitution laws. That's not a real strong point. Sure, the government can make prostitution illegal, but they can't even come close to enforcing the laws. It's the same with abortion.

Catherine Minor's letter was even funnier. She too was writing to rebut the pro-abortion letter. She wrote that Ms. Waller (the pro-abortion rights letter writer) should google opinions that falsify her position.

Maybe the Chronicle would publish one of my letters again, if I wrote "do a google search to see how wrong conservatives are."

Glen Beck's indoctrination fear/ACORN

Re: The September 27th unsigned editorial on the Augusta Chronicle editorial page entitled "Hooray Mr. President, you are No.1"

The crazy conspiracy theory that President Obama is somehow planning on indoctrinating children originates with Glen Beck. Mr. Beck is mean-spirited, foolish, and ignorant. Yet, apparently he is now the source of conservative republican talking points.

Both in Michael Ryan's column and in Michelle Malkin's column, which Mr. Ryan redundantly placed next to his, they plaigiarize Mr. Beck's idea that the Obama administration is bent on indoctrinating children with propaganda. The facts easily dispute these ridiculous allegations.

In Mr. Ryan's column he falsely claims that the National Endowment for the Arts held a conference where the director of communications, Yosi Sergeant, asked artists to consider creating works of art to further President Obama's agenda. Actually, he asked them to work with Michelle Obama to create works that would assist groups sponsoring public service projects--something that obviously has nothing to do with the President's legislative agenda.

Mr. Ryan also repeats some senators' false claim that this might be a violation of the Hatch Act. If Mr. Ryan would have done the slightest bit of research, he would've known the list of government agencies falling under Hatch Act jurisdiction doesn't even include the NEA. (See www.osc.gov for the list of government agencies that do fall under this law's jurisdiction.)

Mr. Ryan also implies that Mr. Sergeant was forced to resign as communications director. This isn't exactly true either, but the controversy, generated by the Glen Beck Show, did lead him to take another position within the NEA.

But perhaps the most ridiculous point of Mr. Ryan's editorial was his claim that a song some students sang in an elementary school in New Jersey was some kind of nefarious indoctrination. The Obama administration had nothing to do with this. I think conservatives are just jealous because democrats have a charismatic leader capable of inspiring spontaneous gestures of support. They know they looked silly when they had a temper tantrum last month about President Obama's address to schoolchildren, and they're just looking for some reason to justify their silly opposition. Jon Stewart puts the whole controversy in context in this clip-- http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909290003

Note: The clip also shows schoolchildren singing the praises of George W. Bush's handling of Katrina.

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Re: The September 28th unsigned editorial on the Augusta Chronicle Opinion page entitled "ACORN who?"

ACORN is a worthwhile organization that helps poor and working class people find jobs, finance housing, and register to vote. Conservatives hate poor people, and they've been out to get this organization for a long time. The recent dishonest documentary produced by James O'Keefe and funded by business lobbyists does do a great deal of damage to ACORN. The documentary is dishonest because Mr. O'Keefe claims that no ACORN offices turned him down when he was baiting illicit counseling. In fact police records prove that some ACORN employees did reject and report him. It's a shame ACORN, which does so much good, now has an unfairly tarnished reputation.

In his editorial Mr. Ryan quotes a Wall Street Pundit, John Fund, in an attempt to tie President Obama with ACORN, as if that would be a bad thing. Here is the misleading quote:

"He (Obama) became a top trainer for ACORN's Chicago conference. In 1995, he became ACORN's attorney, participating in a landmark case to force the state of Illinois to implement the federal Motor Voter Law. That law's loose voter registration requirements would later be exploited by ACORN employees in an effort to flood voter rolls with fake names."

President Obama was never a paid employee of ACORN, though it is true he worked alongside U.S. Justice Department lawyers on one case--that's not much of a connection. ACORN reported irregularities with voter applications they paid for. Lazy workers defrauded ACORN--that's the truth of this matter. There is no evidence whatsoever that any of these phony names ever made it on to voter rolls or were counted as votes.

Shame on the pathetic cowards in the democratic party, and the crooked pro-business republicans for defunding ACORN, a violation of the constitution's Bill of Attainder provision, as pointed out by Rachel Maddow.

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I predict Mr. Ryan will weigh in on Alan Grayson's comments on the house floor, and he will, as usual, copy conservative talking points. Just wait and see.

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Local radio talk show host, Austin Rhodes, has suggested my blog is slanderous. There's nothing slanderous about it, and I challenge anyone to find slander on any blog I've written.