Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn.
Rather than adding this April 2006 comic strip to the archives, I’m repeating it today because it applies to those who employ the politics of attempting to destroy the messenger in order to obscure the message.

The image showing on the television was meant to portray the clowns who, at that time, were trying to discredit some of my online friends and the nonpartisan charitable work they were doing. Anyone who has had to do battle with the clowns knows that it’s not paranoia if they are out to get you.
Today’s Inspiration Source:
Stanley Kurtz’s Fairness Doctrine Preview
(One account of the Obama Action Line’s efforts to stop anyone reporting on Obama’s connection to the “[t]his is a guy who lives in my neighborhood. . . . He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis,” co-founder of the radical left-wing Weather Underground Organization, and now University of Illinois at Chicago Professor William Ayers.)
Additional Information:
Obama Uses Chicago Thug Politics to Intimidate, Shut Down Criticism
The Obama camp tries to suppress a campaign ad and university archives linking the candidate to a ’60s terrorist who hosted his first campaign fundraiser. [Podcasts Link]
Other Inspiration Sources:
ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors
During a Republican Administration, you can pretty much count on: Good Economic News = A Scary, Negative (It’ll Never Last!) Title Read the story and you’ll find that “[g]ross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the [2008] April-June quarter, its fastest pace in nearly a year, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.”
From Story #2, Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page: “There are really two excellent graphs here that indicate there is no recession. Obviously! It indicates that the unemployment rate in the Bush years is lower than in the Clinton years, and that the percentage of people in poverty during the Bush years has decreased.”

Related posts:
- Media Agenda or the Media Know Nothings
- Wind Falling: Oil Company Windfall Profits
- 3 Simple Rules to Avoid Poverty
- True Change in the 2008 Presidential Election
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