The moonbat left-wing of the Democratic Party is a master of creating problems and then successfully shifting the blame onto others.  For example, create a welfare state that destroys families and economic prosperity in minority communities then, with the complicity of their “liberal sleeper cells” in the mass media, fill the airwaves, op-ed pages and left-leaning cable news channels with constant disinformation that will shift the blame to the Right — then vilify and marginalize those who disagree with the “party line.”   It is a formula that has served the Left well for decades and has been very well documented in Bamboozled.

That’s why we weren’t surprised to read a little missive on News Hounds (“We watch Fox so you don’t have to.”) that talked about the coverage of last week’s Presidential Candidate debates, both Democratic and Republican.  It bemoans that Fox News Studio B had three segments (in which Angela was a guest) on the Republican debates the day after they occurred, while having less coverage following the previous Democratic debates.  On the surface, that does not seem “fair and balanced.”  However, there’s nary a mention of the fact that the Democrats first committed to a previous Fox News debate with the Congressional Black Caucus, then choked, after the Lefties started whining — leading to the withdrawal of the three leading contenders Clinton, Obama, and Edwards, thus rendering the debate irrelevant.  Interestingly, this happened after Rupert Murdoch had held a fund-raiser for Hillary during her last Senate campaign.  What was he thinking?  Hadn’t he studied enough about Hillary to realize that she’s got all the loyalty of a drunken coed at Mardi Gras?  She’s loyal to whomever tossed the last beaded necklace.

So, while the News Hounds piece is “technically” true, it’s the equivalent of quoting someone “out of context.”  By not reporting the “whole story,” the reader is left with a false impression.  In this case, a news organization was ”shunned” by a political party in a way that ended up costing it “big bucks.”  Now, don’t you imagine that the same news organization would think long and hard before committing major resorces for coverage of that political party’s events in the future?  Of course it would.

Here are some background sources for this.  (International Herald Tribune, “Fox News debate drives wedge between Democrats,” May 27, 2007.  CBS News, “Democrats Dismiss Fox News Debate,” May 31, 2007.)

This past week, Dr. Alvin Jones, of the Paradise Radio Network, based in Oxford, North Carolina, interviewed Angela.  The audio can be heard here.  His terrestial radio outlets, WCHQ and WHNC, cover North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC.   However, his extensive library of past interviews with an impressive array of world leaders, celebrities, and others is available worldwide on his website.  His program and website carry a very positive message of empowerment — as evidenced by his statement entitled, Only.

Only

You are only what you give
You reap only where you’ve sown
You attract only what you respect
You create only what you say
You become only what you honor
You overcome only what you face
You trust only what you believe
You have only what you give away
You lose only what you hold on to
And your goodness is only reflected in your legacy

Alvin Augustus Jones

The website, You Don’t Speak for Me, was founded by Col. Al Rodriguez (ret), who was taken aback while watching protests, last April, supporting illegal immigration.  He was disturbed by the mainstream media’s (MSM) coverage of the protests and those that appointed themselves spokespersons for the entire Latino population of the United States.  Not one to be Bamboozled he started the organization and website by the same name.  In spite of the MSM’s attempts to ignore them, he and his organization have had some success at getting coverage for their efforts.

Today, Angela’s recent interview with Lisa De Pasquale (bio) of the American Conservative Union, and CPAC Director, appeared on Townhall, where she is a columnist.  Here’s a brief quotation from the interview:

…the greatest “anti-poverty program” ever invented is the two-parent married family, an institution God created for optimal childrearing and happiness, with two sources of income…

We are currently working on a web page, “Contents & Quotations” that will allow rapid access to chapter, by chapter, quotations from Bamboozled.  This biggest problem we have is deciding which quotations are the most important!  The book has so much well-researched ”meat” that there is very little “fat” to trim for the key quotations.

If the quotations appear to be nothing more than “teasers” to get you to buy the book, we plead “guilty.”  As we go through each chapter, and prepare for another, newer web page, “Angela’s top 10;” it is incresingly difficult to decide what to post.  If you’ve read Angela’s book and have any favorite quotations, please list them (briefly) in the comments to this blog post.

As our book sales, website link popularity, website traffic, etc. continue to grow; we have nobody else to thank — other than you, our website visitors.  Thank you so very much.  Angela and the message of Bamboozled are increasingly important as we approach our next election.  Any success that we enjoy, is your success, as well.

Right Wing News is one of the more influential political blogs on the Internet.  That’s why we were so pleased to see a “mini” interview with Angela appear there yesterday.  Like a “mini” skirt, sometimes “less is more.”  And it didn’t take long before the rest of the blogosphere took notice.  Michelle Malkin, Provide for the Common Defense, Bluey Blog, Booker Rising, The Jawa Report, among other blogs have posted, linked, or otherwise mentioned Angela, the interview and/or the message of her book Bamboozled.

Why is that special?  Is this nothing more than an online “mutual admiration society?”  Perhaps, but those that might like to think so — in our opinion — are ”whistling past the graveyard” where the remains of their relevance to the American public (and more importantly the American electorate) putrifies and rots as surely as the flesh of a cadaver buried in the earth.  The dead and dying media of major metropolitan newspapers with their shrill and increasingly irrelevant editorial pages and their compatriots in the former oligarchy of the three major national television network news organizations are now being surpassed in influence by the so-called “alternative” media.

Soon, as more and more of us turn to new sources of information, the Liberal Agenda will no longer be the subject of endless repetition in a national mass media “echo chamber” whose lies are force fed to an unwitting public until they become “common knowledge.”  No longer will the pronouncements of the self-anointed “high priests of truth” go unquestioned.  (Remember Dan Rather and his phony documents about President Bush’s Air National Guard service?  Prior to the Internet would they have been discredited?  And so quickly?)

This is why we must be ever vigilant to guard against those that would stifle the new voices of “alternative” media in the name of “campaign finance reform” or extension of “the fairness doctrine” to cyberspace.  As the election of 2008 approaches, the death throes of the old media, as they try to enforce their tired liberal ideology onto America one last time, will become more, and more extreme, just as a drowning man before finally succumbing to the inevitable.

So, was it just another interview reported online?  Yes, but its implications are so much more than that. 

The message of Angela’s book Bamboozled is being very well-received among conservatives and Republicans in the press, book sales are solid and increasing, exposure through a variety of media outlets, television, radio (more interviews than we can count), newspaper op-eds and blog columns, etc.  This is all good news, because even the most stalwart conservatives among us — when constantly bombarded by the mainstream media’s leftist propaganda and revisionist history – have to be reminded of the truth, especially with regards to racial and sexual political issues.  These factors all combined to result in the National Review editoral by Kathryn Jean Lopez who titled her The Corner introduction to the Q&A interview, Angela of the Right.  (A title accepted by Angela with all due modesty.)

However, there is an important audience, of moderates and liberals, that is being “short-changed” here.  In spite of Bamboozled’s success in its initial release, there is a definite feeling, from time to time, that we are “preaching to the choir.”  This led to Lopez’ comment:

…I don’t know how many who don’t already hate the “liberal agenda” will pick up her book, but I hope they do…

In many ways, the ultimate success of Angela’s book will be determined not by how many book signings, radio interviews, op-ed columns, and television appearances the articulate, photogenic author makes (although that is certainly important), but by YOU. 

• Are you willing to take the invaluable information presented in Bamboozled and speak up when you’re at a social gathering — or maybe even your church — where some loud mouth liberal is spouting off the Democratic party’s talking points?  (No need to be abrasive, keep in mind that these liberals mean well and really believe what they’re saying. )
• Are you willing to be patient, and persistent in your efforts.  Deprogramming a liberal takes time.  
• Are you willing to give a copy of Bamboozled to a friend, family member, or co-worker who has been brainwashed by a lifetime of exposure to the mainstream media’s Liberal Agenda?

It’s up to you!

*****Editor’s note: Special thanks to blogs like Amidst the Crowd, Villa Julie College Republicans, Fried Brains and many others who are out there supporting the Bamboozled message.

Angela attended the Civitas Institute Leadership Conference that took place this past weekend in North Carolina.  The two-day event was held in Raleigh at the Sheraton Hotel and was opened by Rudy Giuliani.  The finale dinner was headlined by Senator Elizabeth Dole.  The conference was very well attended — even a few liberal moonbats showed up to protest, as reported by blogger Dean Stevens who has posted quite a few photos — several including Angela.  Blogger Lorie Byrd (“Commentary on current events, entertainment and everyday life delivered with a Southern drawl.”) was there as well and has promised to post an online review of Bamboozled in the near future.  Angela also met Senator Fred Smith — who is a GOP candidate for Governor of North Carolina.  Be sure to visit his website.

While at the Conference, the importance of Angela’s book, Bamboozled, and its message about the dangers of the Liberal Agenda for our nation as the next election approaches, made an impression on many of the political leaders and conservative rank and file in attendance.  (Many went home with signed copies.)  We must work harder than ever before to keep the Left’s disinformation machine from using the mainstream media as a platform to exploit black, female and Latino voters as an electoral base for dominating the 2008 election.

Angela was quoted today in the Commercial Appeal, a Scripps newspaper in Memphis, in an article by Halimah Abdullah

“I’m proud to be black. I’m proud to be a woman. I’m proud to be from Mississippi. And I’m a proud Republican.”

The article covers ongoing efforts by the GOP to attract support, even activism, from blacks, women, and Latinos.  Efforts that are effectively being thwarted by the liberal mainstream media.  Efforts that Angela’s book Bamboozled seeks to address.

As mentioned in the article, Katrina has hurt the GOP.  The Liberal Agenda media machine has effectively shifted blame for Katrina to President Bush from Democratic Mayor Ray Nagin — who delayed the order to evacuate until it was too late and let the city’s school bus fleet become submerged without carrying a single citizen of New Orleans to safety — and Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco — who mishandled the request to federal authorities for assistance and reportedly said on a network satellite feed (We’re looking for the video!) that she “blew it.”  (See Bob Williams article Shifting the Blame in the Katrina Tragedy that has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere.)  Further, the Liberal media has repeatedly mentioned “budget cuts” made by the Bush Administration for levees and flood control in Louisiana prior to Katrina — when in fact a large portion of these funds were being used by state and local officials for the construction of a New Orleans area marina and infrastruture for New Orleans floating casino boats.  (Political “pork” by any standard!)  Even CBS News, hardly known for being a “dupe” for conservatives and the GOP, is reporting continued mismanagement by Nagin — and infighting with his fellow Democrat, Kathleen Blanco, over federal assistance.  (CBS)

We think that many liberals — many of whom mean well, but are misguided — just need a strong dose of truth to “see the light.”  Which is why we’ve been promoting Angela’s book on conservative, moderate, and liberal websites.  However, it appears that there are more than a few liberal websites, that don’t even want to display ads that promote conservative ideas — and all this time we thought that liberals were, well, “liberal” and wanted to include everybody, or at least listen to everybody.  (We even learned the words to “Kumbaya” so we could “fit in” at all of the liberal events we thought we were going to get invited to after advertising on Liberal blogs.) 

But we were wrong.  Our pre-paid blog ads have been rejected by a number of liberal blogs, most notably: The Democratic Underground, among others.   So, at least for most of the liberal blogosphere, conservatives need not apply.

Interestingly, there were a few smaller liberal blogs that did take our money, and we have had a fair number of liberal curriosity seekers visiting the website. 

But one in particular, Prairie State Blue, we must admit, was quite clever.  They took our money and placed an ad above it for an “add-on” for the Firefox Internet browser that would block “animated” advertisement files.  Cute.  But at least we know that we have their attention — and judging by the click-throughs — the attention of more than a few of their website visitors.  Odd behavior for a website with the motto: “Open Source Politics.”  But at least they took the ad, unlike some other Liberal websites.

So, it looks like we’re going to have to find some other way to reach Liberal audiences — between the mainstream media and the liberal blogmasters that won’t take our advertising, it’s going to be hard to get the Bamboozled message to those that need it most!  We’re open to suggestion.  Anybody?