You see, the reason why Sean Penn himself says that he disappoints the media so much is because he blows their cover. Penn doesn’t have the good sense to sit down and shut up and quit talking about politically correct speech that the mainstream media is imposing on everyone. Penn doesn’t realize that the attendees at the Oscars weren’t really buying all that PC stuff. They are more interested in being noticed and having their name mentioned in fancy places where most other people wouldn’t even remotely be found.

Sean Penn spills the beans and tells everyone what the mainstream media is doing, and the reason why he is vilified is because he can’t keep his mouth shut. The mainstream media are pushing an agenda for profit, which doesn’t necessarily mean that they really care about what they are flashing upon our screens. In fact, even if it were something dangerous and harmful and costs lives and renders an entire country being at risk they still wouldn’t care as long as they get their share.

And there Mr. Penn really deviates and outright endorses Barack Obama right there in his acceptance speech. Wow, that takes guts to do. As though everyone who is watching and everyone sitting in the audience is held captive and must be preached to by this errant child of the corporate media Wizard of Oz who doesn’t know how not to peer behind the curtain.

Yes, Sean Penn is on a quest to find the truth of the Wizard, and he is going to bring the whole house down in order to do so. He is going to spew politically correct jingoisms, catch phrases, and popularized group think mentalities in order to burst his way past the crowd (who already knows better) in order to find “the truth”. Allow us at The Daily Nigger to help him out a bit – he’s already there.

Sean Penn has basically told us that the media wants us to walk in lockstep formation behind Barack Obama and to believe every single thing that the media tells us to think. He has thrown down the gauntlet at the altar of self-delusion which has ordered us all to pay attention to one message from one source at all times despite our natural inclination to think for ourselves. In short, Penn couldn’t just shut up and let the mainstream media bask in its glory of having anointed the “first black president”. And yet nobody even bats an eye when the media tells us this horse manure even though we know that his mother was white and the truth is that he wasn’t really that fond of his black father in the very least.

Ah yes, what makes a half black dude strip away his given name of Barry and become Barack. And what makes a guy raised by a “typical white person” become this stark raving mad man on a mission to tear down an entire country and build it back up the way he wants it?! Does the media bat an eye? Do they ever doubt him? Oh no, that would mean we have to catch onto their little game of self delusion and mind control. We must believe that everything is okay, because they say so. Funny how the baby boomers became the exact opposite of what they once proclaimed to have stood for, which is self-expression. As the curtain is parted and as Sean Penn has so eloquently pointed out for us, the mastermind behind this caper isn’t really that sure he is right. It’s just a creation out of the thin blue sky. Nobody is leaping to their feet in the audience and congratulating Penn. They were silent and not really that amused. So was everyone else, but we are too bullshitted to even raise so much as a faint whimper to say why or how we’ve all been chemically castrated by the media.

People should be thanking Sean Penn for being bold enough and foolish enough to actually tell billions of people around the world what an utter and complete pile of crap the mainstream media is. They are not gods, and they certainly aren’t the government. At best they are a traveling circus not worthy of a juggling act with one ball done by a clown on stilts. Of course, tell that to Mickey Rourke who Penn admits should have gotten the Oscar. But heaven forbid if it had been given to him for The Wrestler instead. Then there would have been far too many questions being asked of the media, and that’s not a good thing.

Submit to the almighty media . . . or suffer the consequences – a life of blissful enlightenment.

-TDN

Let me preface this article that we are cutting and pasting below from Melanie Phillips, who by and large is a giant in the rapidly growing field of study, which is that of observing and tracking the phenomenon of radical Islam. Ms. Phillips’ writing style is very appealing. She is succinct and wastes no time making her point. She is unapologetic for her views, which by and large are punctuated with much-deserved criticism of the Left in America today. However, the most shocking thing I discovered in her article below is the stunning percentage of Jews who voted for Obama. I wrote to Ms. Phillips and asked her for clarification of the 80% figure she cited in her essay. For now, I will take her at her word, because I have never been able to find this statistic before and frankly I am shocked by it. It underscores the deterioration of American life that we once knew of an educated and thus alert citizenry. We could always rely upon the family and shared beliefs to make us strong against the tyranny that self-absorption ushers in. The essay below very succinctly points out the hypocrisy between what the Left stands for and what the Left has essentially been exposed as being, which are apologists for every far flung cause there is in the world without even bothering to examine the underlying facts. Left wing ideologies are spineless, gutless, emotionless ideas that are born out of a total lack of intellectual curiosity.

By Melanie Phillips
melaniephillips.com
February 27, 2009

In a letter to the Jerusalem Post, David Harris, director of the American Jewish Committee [AJC], has defended his organization’s decision to participate in the preparatory meeting for Durban II — the follow-up to the 2001 U.N. World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, which took place in Durban, South Africa.

Two weeks ago, AJC senior official Felice Gaer was part of the delegation America sent to try to improve the draft of the declaration, the final version of which will ultimately be approved at Durban II itself. The U.S. vowed that if its attempts to improve the draft failed, it would not participate in the final conference.

Israel and the United States walked out of the 2001 conference in protest against the anti-Semitism on display there. Israel and Canada have already announced that they do not intend to participate in the Durban II conference in Geneva this April, fearing a re-run. The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick raised similar concerns, which is what compelled Harris to respond.

Harris wrote that although “under the present circumstances” the United States should not attend the April conference, “this leaves two options: to throw up our hands, or work to change those circumstances.”

The AJC, he explains, believed it should “work with our government to assess whether Durban is beyond salvaging. . . . If Durban can be fixed, everybody wins — not least, the global struggle against racism, to which AJC has been committed for more than a century. If it can’t, we will absolutely seek to hold the administration to its promise to withdraw.”

This is, to put it mildly, a serious misjudgment. Durban II is intrinsically a disgrace, and no civilized country should have anything to do with it. Since it is being run by the U.N. Human Rights Council — whose Durban Preparatory Committee is chaired by Libya, with Iran and Cuba as vice-chairs — the idea that such a meeting can assist in “the global struggle against racism” is absurd.

The key point, moreover, is that Durban II has been set up specifically to “reaffirm” and “foster the implementation” of the original Durban Declaration, which singled out Israel for censure and libeled it as a racist state.

Even if some of the more egregious aspects were to be removed from the final declaration at Geneva, there is no way in which it can be anything less than obnoxious. If Libya and Iran have any sense, they will offer at the last minute some cosmetic changes to allow America to trumpet its great victory — a victory that would merely sanitize and legitimize a declaration that would remain odious.

Moreover, so far, the American delegation has singularly failed to draw the poison from this process. U.N. watcher and NRO contributor Anne Bayefsky has reported that when Iran and Syria blocked an attempt to include a provision that would “condemn without reservation any denial of the Holocaust,” the American delegation remained silent.

Worse, the delegation similarly kept mum when the Palestinian delegation slipped in a demand that all U.N. states provide Palestinians protection from Israel. Worse still, the Palestinian passage also called for implementation of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice against Israel’s security fence, which would effectively strip “racist” Israel of the means of defending itself against mass murder.

Not only has the American delegation failed to stop the draft declaration from actually getting even worse: just by taking part, it has done immense damage. It has whipped the rug out from under the U.K., which was apparently on the verge of announcing it would have nothing to do with Durban II, and from other smaller states, like the Czech Republic, that were waiting on America’s decision and feel they can’t pull out as long as America is involved.

It’s bad enough for a delegation representing America as a whole to be involved in this, and to stay silent in the face of anti-Semitism. But for an organization representing the interests of American Jews to be part of such a delegation is worse, and it reflects a broader contradiction within the Jewish community.

Some 80 percent of Jewish voters cast their ballots for Obama — despite the very substantial evidence from his own writings, and from the people he has associated with, that he would be no friend to Israel, and no effective defender of the West against the Islamic jihad.

Now we are seeing precisely what these Jewish voters have helped bring about — an American foreign-policy and intelligence administration stacked with Israel-bashers, new-realist appeasers, and Oslo-process retreads — the last category having apparently learned nothing from the debacles of the Second Intifada, the Gaza disengagement, and the new reality of Iranian power and Islamism spreading throughout the region.

As Israel faces, from Iran, the most serious threat to its existence in its history, it now also faces an American president who has given Iran the supreme gift of time to realize its nuclear goal, while he “engages” Iran and Syria and undermines their more moderate opponents.

And in the wake of Israel’s latest military actions, he has promised $900 million to rebuild Gaza — the home turf of Hamas, which is sure to benefit from this largesse funded by the American taxpayer, even if the money is routed through non-governmental organizations and the U.N.

This is a grim prospect for Israel. How can American Jews have helped bring it about? The answer is that, contrary to the canard that “the Jewish lobby” has hijacked American foreign policy in the interests of Israel, for most American Jews Israel is not a high priority. Of much greater concern are their liberal social attitudes and their reluctance to believe that a black Democratic president could pose a threat to Jewish interests.

The danger is that they may find themselves being used to camouflage and legitimize such a threat. The AJC’s participation in the run-up to Durban II is a terrible portent of what is to come.

What would Americans do if a war erupted on the border between the United States and Mexico? You needn’t postulate at all, because it is here – - and now. And what is America’s response to this? Amazingly, absolutely nothing. Now, consider the threat of Mexican drug lords in possession of nuclear or biological weapons from Iran, and then consider what you would do. Is the picture getting clearer? Here’s a CNN article on the latest from south of the border.

By Ismael Estrada
CNN
February 27, 2009

Jose Molinar knew something wasn’t right. He hadn’t heard from his wife for a few hours, which was not sitting well with him.

Marisella Molinar worked as a secretary for a top prosecutor in Juarez, Mexico, Jesus Huerta Yedra. She was employed in the office for more than 10 years and though she lived across the border in El Paso, Texas, with her husband, she drove about 20 minutes over the Juarez-El Paso border every day to the job she loved.

The growing violence over rival drug cartels had concerned the couple, but Mexico was a part of their lives and they were sure the violence stayed between rival drug gangs, who were fighting over a lucrative drug route into the United States.

Without fail, Marisella Molinar would call her husband every day when she arrived to work, went out for lunch and when she was leaving the office.

But on December 3, 2008, by around 5:30 p.m., Jose Molinar still hadn’t heard from his wife. He called the office in Mexico and was told she was giving her boss a ride over the border so he could do some Christmas shopping. Jose Molinar turned on his television, and his life changed forever.

“As soon as the image came up, I saw her truck,” said Molinar, who was watching the news out of Juarez, “and I knew what happened right then and there.”

Watch Jose Molinar talk about the moment he knew his wife was killed.

Marisella Molinar was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Her passenger, Jesus Huerta Yedra, was a target of the cartels that day. As Molinar’s car was about a mile away from the border crossing back to the United States, gunmen walked up to her car and fired 85 rounds from an AK-47 into their intended target. One shot hit Marisella Molinar, a mother of two and proud grandmother, in the chest, killing her instantly.

“She wasn’t involved, she didn’t have anything to do with this!” said Jose Molinar in a recent interview with CNN. “She was the guy’s secretary and she was giving him a ride to meet his wife here in El Paso who was Christmas shopping.”

But instead of making it home to help her husband hang Christmas lights, Marisella Molinar became yet another victim in the drug war taking place just steps from the U.S. border.

The violence generated by the war of the drug cartels for control of drug routes translated last year into some 6,000 killings. More than 1,600 of them occurred in Juarez, three times more than the most murderous city in the United States. This year, in two months, the body count in Juarez is 400.

Mexican military and police in riot gear now patrol the once popular streets of Juarez. Gone are the Americans shopping, dining and partying. The bars and restaurants are shuttered — many closed for good. Americans don’t come here anymore.

In March 2008, the Mexican military joined with Mexican states and local law enforcement in the fight against drug cartels in border cities. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has waged a war against business as usual with the cartels who controlled drug routes through Mexico and into the United States. The fallout has led rival drug gangs to launch all-out war not only with the military, but also with each other, because the once-established drug routes are now up for grabs.

The violence has been the worst in Juarez, where cartels have killed police officers, forced the chief of police to resign and threatened public officials.

“They started killing police officers, and not when they were doing police work, but when they were coming out of their homes and getting into their cars to go to the police station,” said Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz, whose own family has recently received death threats.

At the city’s only morgue, bodies are piling up. The mayor said there are far too many dead for the small facility to handle. The majority of the dead are unidentified members of the cartels. Just last week, the mayor said, 50 corpses were buried in mass graves because no one claimed the bodies.

Officials from both sides of the border said the drug war may go on for years. Beheadings, bodies riddled with gunfire and blood-stained streets will continue daily, they said.

They added that the appetite for illegal drugs is too great in the United States, and the drug routes are too lucrative for the battles to end.

“It’s not going to be won quickly,” said Enrique Torres, a spokesman for the Mexican government, adding that the Mexican president is committed to fighting the cartels. “He can’t talk about a time frame in this type of situation. We know the monster is big, but we don’t have an idea of how big it is.”

Just a very quick note here at The Daily Nigger, which is a point that Rush Limbaugh brought up at the end of his show today. That is, Hillary Clinton has proven just what a duplicitous piece of shit she is. As if anyone needed any more proof of this given her complete silence during her husband’s rather long history of banging sluts, Hillary has bought into the Obama left-wing, pro-Hamas stance hook, line and sinker. There is definitely a lot of deserved concern now that she is Secretary of State because she has done an about face and gone along with Obama’s foreign policy stance. Now $900 million has been given to Hamas, and the Obama administration calls it aid to the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. Hello, there is no Palestinian Authority in Gaza. There is Hamas in Gaza, and that’s about it. In fact, Hamas seeks out and kills Fatah members.

Kudos to Limbaugh for pointing this out today, and as he said this should be a “teachable moment”. I understand what he means by this, and he alluded to it by saying that American Jews need to wake up and figure out who their friends are. On the other hand, you have to ask yourself how could people actually be fooled by this woman in the first place? It is obvious that she is duplicitous, hypocritical, opportunistic, and unprincipled.

Sad. Very sad.

-TDN

Happy Friday . . .

Bottom line this very quickly for you: (1) An Israeli attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities is imminent, and (2) Obama is going to get left holding the bag while dealing with the fallout. The point being that Israel has everything to gain and nothing to lose, and the proverbial ‘tail’ may well be found wagging the ‘dog’ . . . if you get my drift. This is a quintessential power play reminiscent of Brutus and Caesar amplified by around a hundred million or so.

By Edwin Black
Jerusalem Post
February 26, 2009

In recent days, four key developments have clicked in to edge Iran and Israel much closer to a military denouement with profound consequences for American oil that the nation is not prepared to meet.

First, Iran has proven it can successfully launch a satellite into outer space as it did on February 2. Teheran claimed, to the incredulity of Western governments, that the satellite was to monitor earthquakes and enhance communications. Few believe that, especially since America’s own space program continuously launches unpublished military satellite missions. Teheran plans three more satellites this year, creating an easily weaponized space net that worries American military planners.

Second, the International Atomic Energy Agency last week admitted that it had underestimated Iran’s nuclear stockpile by about one-third. The watchdog group now confirms Iran possesses 2,227 lbs. of nuclear material, sufficient to create at least one nuclear bomb. That stockpile includes 1,010 kilograms of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride, or approximately 700 kilograms containing the vital uranium 235 isotope, the stuff needed to weaponize.

Third, Iran has ramped up its enrichment program with thousands of new homegrown, highly advanced centrifuges. As The Cutting Edge News reported in April 2008, Iran wants 6,000 centrifuges to speed the enrichment of weapons-grade material. The number of working centrifuges now exceeds 5,400, including 164 new ones believed to be the faster and more efficient IR-2 and IR-3 models made in Iran. These new Iranian centrifuges are at least as sophisticated as its recently imported P-2 models.

American policymakers are now convinced that Iran, despite all protests and charades, is in a mad dash to create a deliverable nuclear weapon. The Obama administration has almost openly abandoned the assertions of the CIA’s much-questioned 2008 National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran was not pursuing nuclear weaponry for the simple reason that its atomic program and military programs were housed in separate buildings.

Fourth, Binyamin Netanyahu has just become prime minister of Israel. He is determined to take action before – not after – Iran achieves its nuclear potential. This creates a volatile, hair-trigger situation that could explode at any moment. Hence, the endgame is now vastly closer than it was in mid-January, when many believed Israel might take action during the lame-duck interregnum.

Israeli countermeasures to date have included a massive international covert program of equipment sabotage, assassination of key nuclear personnel and a vibrant diplomatic offensive. But all these efforts combined amount to nothing more than delaying tactics, as Iran is irrevocably determined to achieve a nuclear weapon as fast as possible. Many believe such a weapon will be used to fulfill its prediction that Israel will soon be wiped off the map.

The consequences for this confrontation are apocalyptic because Iran’s full partner in this enterprise is Russia. The Russian company Atomstroiexport has provided most if not all of the nuclear material for the 1,000 megawatt Bushehr reactor, along with thousands of technicians to service and operate it.

Following its invasion of Georgia, Moscow forged ahead with final delivery plans for the S-300 advanced air defense system which can track scores of IAF airborne intruders simultaneously, whether low-level drones or high-altitude missiles, and shoot them down. But the S-300, the linchpin of Iran’s defense against Israel, will not be fully operational for several months, creating a narrow window for Israel to act. Indeed, Russia has just announced a pause in missile deliveries for the system in fear that it will accelerate an Israeli response.

Iran, of course, has repeatedly threatened to counter any such attack by closing the Strait of Hormuz, as well as launching missiles against the Ras Tanura Gulf oil terminal and bombarding the indispensable Saudi oil facility at Abqaiq which is responsible for some 65 percent of Saudi production. Any one of these military options, let alone all three, would immediately shut off 40% of all seaborne oil, 18% of global oil, and some 20% of America’s daily consumption.

America’s oil vulnerability has been back-burnered due to the economic crisis and the plunge in gasoline prices. However, the price of gasoline will not mitigate an interruption of oil flow. The price of oil does not impact its ability to flow through blocked or destroyed facilities. Indeed, an interruption would not restore prices to those of last summer – which Russian and Saudi oil officials say is needed – but probably zoom the pump cost to $20 per gallon.

American oil vulnerability in recent months has escalated precisely because of oil’s precipitous drop to $35 to $40 a barrel. At that price, America’s number one supplier, Canada, which supplies some 2 million out of 20 million barrels of oil a day, cannot afford to produce. Canadian oil sand petroleum is not viable below $70 a barrel. Much of Canada’s supply has already been cancelled or indefinitely postponed. America’s strategic petroleum reserve can only keep that country moving for approximately 57 days.

The Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, has developed no plan or contingency legislation for an oil interruption, such as a surge in retrofitting America’s 250 million gas guzzling cars and trucks – each with a 10-year life – or a stimulus of the alternate fuel production needed to rapidly get off oil. Ironically, Iran has undertaken such a crash program converting some 20% of its gasoline fleet yearly to compressed natural gas (CNG) as a countermeasure to Western nuclear sanctions against the Teheran regime that could completely block the flow of gasoline to Iran. Iran has no refining capability.

The question of when and how this endgame will play out is not known by anyone. Israeli leaders wish to avoid military preemption at all costs if possible. But many feel the military moment must come; and when that moment does come, it will be swift, highly technologic and in the twinkling of an eye. But as one informed official quipped, “Those who know, don’t talk. Those who talk, don’t know.”

So much for the so-called Swedish socialist model that is sweeping liberals off their feet here in America. Obama’s multi-trillion buck bamboozling for socialism is being ridiculed in, of all places, Sweden as anti-Americanism is on a rampage. Can you say . . . appeasement?

Associated Press
February 26, 2009

Police say arsonists have set four supermarkets on fire in a town south of Stockholm in what may be an anti-American attack.

Police spokeswoman Kia Samrell says police have no suspect in the fires in Sodertalje but are investigating whether an anti-American group was responsible.

Samrell says two of the stores have been destroyed. The third is seriously ruined but the fourth wasn’t damaged. No one was injured in the attacks, which took place early Thursday.

The fires were in two different Willys stores, one Ica store and one Tempo store. The supermarkets are Swedish but sell American goods.

The group ‘Global Intifada’ has previously claimed responsibility for smaller fires at two other stores in Sodertalje and has urged people to set fire to stores selling American goods.

Below is a report surfacing from the most unusual source, that being the BBC, which is by far recognized as being left-leaning and thus a sycophant of Obama. As was expected, Mr. Panetta is showing his inexperience and incompetence as CIA chief.

From the BBC online edition
February 27, 2009

Argentina has summoned the US ambassador in an angry protest against comments by the CIA director about the country’s economic problems.

Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana described the remarks by Leon Panetta as “an unacceptable interference” in Argentina’s internal affairs.

Mr Panetta said Argentina – and Ecuador and Venezuela – could be destabilised by the global economic crisis. US envoy Earl Wayne later said the comments had been misinterpreted.

Mr Taiana described Mr Panetta’s comments as “irresponsible” and “unfounded”.

“It is an unacceptable interference in our internal affairs,” the minister said at a news conference on Thursday. Mr Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, made his comments a day earlier.

He told reporters that he had spoken to a source who informed him that “there are some serious problems that we have to pay attention to in Latin America that involve economic instability”.

When asked to name the countries the source was referring to, Mr Panetta said: “The concern particularly involved Argentina, Ecuador and Venezuela.”

Ambassador Wayne later said the CIA chief’s remarks had been misinterpeted. He told C5N TV that Mr Panetta was simply relaying the opinion of a “foreign source”, not expressing concerns about the economic stability in Argentina.

The country’s GDP grew steadily every year after it recovered from the economic meltdown in 2001-02. The government expects a modest growth this year.

However, some economists say the economy may even shrink amid a plummeting demand for Argentina’s beef, corn, soy and wheat.

I say this in light of the fraudulent liberal payback spending plan by Obomber and his commie cronies.  If the kind of money being spent here is true then I propose the following spending plan instead of the rip off being proposed Obomber and company.

Lets just give every LEGAL resident of the US one million dollars ($1,000,000.00).  At the current population of say 320 million that would amount to 320 trillion dollars. ($320,000,000,000,000.00) Wow that is an unimaginable amount of money you say.  Yes but lets look at it from Obombers so called “stimulus spending” policies!

If all 320 million of us got a million dollars, what do you think would happen right off? Everyone knows what will happen, people will spend, spend, spend; a new car, new boat, new house, new clothes, new electronics, new everything.  The economy would explode like a hydrogen bomb!  So, if just 300 million of us went on a spending spree and we spent only half of the million ($500,000) we received that would pump 150 trillion dollars back into the economy.

Read the rest here.