My God, what has the world come to!!!!!!! Exclusive: Verizon and AT&T Provided Cell Towers for McCain Ranch

Early in 2007, just as her husband launched his presidential bid, Cindy McCaindecided to resolve an old problem — the lack of cellular telephone coverage on her remote 15-acre ranch near Sedona, nestled deep in a tree-lined canyon called Hidden Valley.

By the time Sen. John McCain’s presidential bid was in full swing this summer, the ranch had wireless coverage from the two cellular companies most often used by campaign staff — Verizon Wireless and AT&T.

Verizon delivered a portable tower know as a “cell site on wheels” — free of charge — to Cindy McCain’s property in June in response to an online request from Cindy McCain’s staff early last year. Such devices are usually reserved for restoring service when cell coverage is knocked out during emergencies, such as hurricanes.

In July, AT&T followed suit, wheeling in a portable tower for free to match Verizon’s offer. “This is an unusual situation,” said AT&T spokeswoman Claudia B. Jones. “You can’t have a presidential nominee in an area where there is not cell coverage.”

No, seriously. The Washington Post is making a bid deal out of this…um….trying to think of a nice word since this will be cross posted at Stop The ACLU. And the WP is trying to make it out to be some sort of big ethical thing. I mean, the Post barely touches Ayers, Pflager, Jeremiah Wright, and anything that might put Obama in even a mildly negative light, but, this is IMPORTANT! I mean, heck, the WP gives Tim Mahoney (D-Fla) the massive benefit of the doubt, putting the stories on the “I might get around to read them later” pages. Cell towers for a presidential candidate, and, not to mention, a very rich wife? BIG NEWS!!!!

Let me tell you, I work in the industry. It is not that big of a deal. It doesn’t cost that much for these types of towers, and, yeah, it does get good will from a sitting US Senator. There are all sorts of little towers that can be put in to give small range coverage, and, there are lots and lots of towers that barely cover anyone. Think about highways: a good chunk of those towers are money losers. Not much traffic on them. I could discuss an area where HSDPA has been put on towers in an area where a few years ago you were lucky if you got service, but, it serves the people coming to play in this area.

Really, this is much ado ‘bought nuttin’ from the same people who thought that an affair by a sitting US president, along with perjury in front of a federal grand jury, suborning testimony, a credible rape charge, a credible sexual harrassment charge, and witness tampering was no big deal. And who still do not bother covering Obama’s radical associations.

I mean, sheesh, AMERICAblog had a total meltdown over this, as do many other on the Left, courtesty of Memeorandum. Not surprising, of course. The only thing they know about mobile towers is that they need this.

That is, of course, the Credentialed Media narrative. Perhaps they oughta check out Barack Obama’s community pages now and then, when we have winners like this

And is nice enough to position the people in Flyover state West Virginia as complete racists. Perhaps they should turn to the senior Senator from West Virginia for his opinion (NY Times)

Senator Barack Obama lost the Ohio Democratic primary by 10 percentage points and the West Virginia primary by a whopping 40 points last spring — a sign, to some Democrats and political analysts, that many whites in the Rust Belt would not vote for a black man for president.

I’m still waiting for the article that states that the 90% of Blacks who are going to vote for Obama are racist, because they won’t consider voting for a White man. But, this is the Democrat playbook when a minority or woman is running, bring up racism or sexism. Democrats will do anything to cover up and avoid a conversation on the real agenda and political background of their candidates. They’ve painted Obama as some sort of centrist, and people are buying the kool aid. If you try and bring his real background and agenda up, you are a racist, as has been documented time and time again.

Yet here was Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, on Sunday, taking a bus tour along the Ohio-West Virginia border — a white, economically depressed region where the Republican ticket, it turns out, is now struggling to prevail. And on a weekend when racial issues flared once more in the presidential campaign, race was also on the minds of many voters here, who said they were wary of a black president even if he might be better for them economically.

“What you hear around here is, would you rather have a black friend in the White House, or a white enemy?” said John Schuster, a Republican from Wheeling, W.Va., who joined several thousand people here for a twilight rally led by Ms. Palin.

Do you like how they linked SarahCuda in with supposed racism, and a quote?

Anyhow, the story continues on and on and on, racism racism racism, those evil Republicans, blah blah blah. Can’t criticise That One, you know.

It’s just so terrible!

As the crowd cheered at a Sarah Palin rally this morning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a man in the audience grinned as he held up a stuffed monkey doll with a Barack Obama bumper sticker wrapped across its forehead.

The incident came at a time when McCain and Palin’s events have increasingly been fueled by angry crowds, since Palin began drawing a connection between Barack Obama and 1960s radical William Ayers, claiming that the Democratic nominee has a history of “palling around” with a terrorist.

Yawn. Nothing from CBS about the assassination chic of the Left.

Or how they call President Bush a terrorist. You would think that one of them might notice this 24/7 since Reagan became president display outside the White House

I guess it is OK to call Bush a monkey, though

CBS and the other lefty media, and lefties, pitch hissy fits (shocka!) about a few folks. Meanwhile, I look over and see Michelle M. has re-documented the massive hypocrisy and unhingedness of the Left.

If I wrote this, or, say, if someone like Michelle Malkin, John Hawkins, Jonah Goldberg, or Charles Krauthammer did, would you wonder if we had completely lost our minds?

Manes Julii Caesaris paucis diebus aderant — “O, most bloody sight!” — cum Ioannes McCainus, mavericus et veteranus captivusque Belli Francoindosinini, et Sara Palina, barracuda borealis, qui sneerare amant Baracum Obamam causa oratorii, pillorant ut demagogi veri, Africanum-Americanum senatorem Terrae Lincolni, ad Republicanas rallias.

Rabidi subcanes candidati, pretendant “no orator as Brutis is,” ut “stir men’s blood” et disturbant mentes populi ad “a sudden flood of mutiny,” ut Wilhelmus Shakespearus scripsit.

Well, good thing then that it was Maureen Dowd in The Paper Of Record. Someone actually paid her to write that. I mean, sheesh, while she is out there complaining about the “American Empire crumbling (woops, haven’t gotten to that excerpt yet)” and getting cash in hand (if you worked in today’s newspaper business, cash in hand is probably a good idea, before they pay you with stock as they let the news division go), the rest of us get paid for hard work, rather then speaking tongues.

OK, on to her readable portion

With modernity crumbling, our thoughts turn to antiquity.

Well, maybe in the Manhattan cocktail party circuit. Those of us who live in Reality Land® tend to think about how to fix it. Anyhow, it is Mo Dowd, so, if she isn’t writing Bush/Cheney/Halliburton, the meds are working

The decline and fall of the American Empire echoes the experience of the Romans, who also tumbled into the trap of becoming overleveraged empire hussies.

Now, one would think she is just making a literary illustration in order to build up to the 2nd half of her op-ed, where her Latin derangement appears. If only. This is the normal notion of those on the Left (plus many Ron Paul supporters, but, I won’t go there), that America has become an empire.

She then goes on to refer to our “sand castle economy,” seems thrilled that Iceland has spurred our help, then, Hey Mo! Woo Woo Woo Woo Woo! seems to dive into Classical Conservative theory

As Seneca, the Roman Stoic who advised treating the body “somewhat strictly,” wrote in a letter: “Avoid whatever is approved of by the mob, and things that are the gift of chance. Whenever circumstance brings some welcome thing your way, stop in suspicion and alarm …They are snares. … we think these things are ours when in fact it is we who are caught. That track leads to precipices; life on that giddy level ends in a fall.”

In other words, the government should run everything, and the mob, ie, The People, should have little say. That is the typical Elitist democrat opinion. They may pay lip service to listening to The People, but, just observe the past 2 years of the Democrat controlled Congress, who promised quite a bit to the Nutroots, but, then proceeded to completely ignore them. Like what Classical Conservative doctrine (not to be confused with today’s Conservatism, which is closer to Classical Liberal doctrine), Daddy will take care of all. You, the children, have little say.

It begs the question: should The Left really be called The Left? In terms of governmental control, Progressive/neo-Liberal doctrine calls for a strong central government elected by the mob, at which point the mob obeys. Classical Socialism calls for input by the mob, to go with centralized governmental control of the economy. On the political scale, the farther one goes to the left, the more control The People have in government. To the right, the less control. In reality, Stalin’s Russia was more to the right then the left. Same with Castro and Chavez. The Left loves their dictators, ya know.

Anyhow, Mo rarely fails to bring amusement.

Hockey Mom does hockey things

And for those of you who can’t get enough of Sarah Palin, her next faceoff will come at center ice at an NHL arena, not at a debate. The GOP vice presidential nominee will drop the ceremonial first puck when the Philadelphia Flyers open the regular season against the New York Rangers on Saturday.

When asked how many hockey games she has seen, Palin said “All of ‘em. Any of ‘em that have been in front of me all these years.” Then she winked and disappeared.

I’ll love her more if she despises both those teams. (psst, I’m a Devils fan)

What sports does Obama like? Other then dressing like a dork then going for a ride on a bike? Can you imagine him throwing out the first pitch? The phrase “short hop” may be too generous. Notice how he has been pretty much kept away from most sporting events? I’ll give John Kerry this: he may have goofed up a few times, such as the famous Lambert Field, but, the guy did know and like sports. People made fun of him for windsurfing, but, good for him, going out there and doing it. Obama is the kid who couldn’t hit the ball off the tee, and it affected him all his life.

But, say, is this sexist?

As Ace points out, it would be easy to dismiss this upskirt shot with a kid looking on like he is at The Doll House, but, there are many more in the same series. Ace has a bunch from al-Reuters.

Oh, and hey, the upcoming Newsweek cover is the subject of intense debate at the LA Times. Entertainment writer Elizabeth Snead wonders if it is OK if Newsweek used a stock photo from 2002 on the cover of Palin holding a gun. Then she wonders

Hey, is that even the right way to hold a rifle? Can’t you shoot your foot off like that?

As Newsbusters points out

What we have here is another denizen of Hollywood that knows zip about firearms. Palin is not holding a rifle. And even if it were a breachloading rifle, with the breach cracked open, draped over a shoulder, one cannot shoot one’s foot off regardless. A breach must be closed before any foot shooting can be in the offing.

$100 says it would be possible if a liberal was holding it. Especially Biden. Obama would run to the shower if he so much as touched it, like a sissy boy who touched a bug.

While I am still at the LA Times, via the National Review: Lisa Guerrero: Time to end this monkey business?

On Friday night, the Angels’ Rally Monkey let down the home crowd in Anaheim. Although the team triumphed Sunday night in Boston, you can’t credit the monkey unless he sneaked into Jared Weaver’s suitcase.

On Saturday, John McCain’s rally monkey, Sarah Palin, popped up in Carson. Fresh off of her victory over herself at the debate, her campaign let Palin out of the cage to rev up the fan base.

Only problem was that, according to an Associated Press analysis, the lady maverick made some “racially tinged” remarks about Barack Obama. Someone might want to inform Sarah that although comments like that may play well in Wasilla, here in Southern California we celebrate diversity along with divisional championships.

Now back to the other primate.

Um, OK, this is the sports page of the LA Times. I do read it a bunch, since I am a Dodgers fan. Long suffering Dodgers fan. She was writing about getting rid of the Angels’ rally monkey, cause she doesn’t like it. Fans sure seem to, though. Yet, through PDS, she felt she had to insert that idiocy into her story. Celebrate diversity, call Palin a monkey. I might agreed with her if she had left it alone after the second paragraph of the excerpt, because there is no doubt that Palin does the same thing. But, the last 2 showed Guerro’s biases and stupidity.

Photoshop: David Lunde

The Obama Compliant Media is carrying the water buckets up the hill: McCain linked to private group in Iran-Contra case. Let’s start with paragraph 2, where the AP’s intentions for writing this article are announced

McCain’s ties are facing renewed scrutiny after his campaign criticized Barack Obama for his link to a former radical who engaged in violent acts 40 years ago.

In the tank. This is the same press who have ignored Ayers, Wright, Pflagar, ACORN, Chicago politicians, and every other association that puts Obama in a bad light, till they could spin them away using Barry Camp talking points.

GOP presidential nominee John McCain has past connections to a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair.

Getting beyond the fact that very few people understood what the heck was going on with Iran-Contra in the first place, this matters why? Democrats blocked all monetary support for the anti-communist/Soviet forces in Nicaragua. Fighting against communist forces was bad in the Democrats eyes. For the Iranian part, it started off as a way of establishing new diplomatic ties to Iran. But, really, old news, so, who cares? Especially since

The U.S. Council for World Freedom was part of an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. The group was dedicated to stamping out communism around the globe.

The council’s founder, retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, said McCain became associated with the organization in the early 1980s as McCain was launching his political career in Arizona. Singlaub said McCain was a supporter but not an active member in the group.

“McCain was a new guy on the block learning the ropes,” Singlaub told The Associated Press in an interview. “I think I met him in the Washington area when he was just a new congressman. We had McCain on the board to make him feel like he wasn’t left out. It looks good to have names on a letterhead who are well-known and appreciated.

“I don’t recall talking to McCain at all on the work of the group,” Singlaub said.

So, it was a token appointment, McCain was not involved at all, just a name. Remind me what your point of this story was, AP? Ah, I bet it was to protect Obama and to use the word “Nazi” in a story about McCain, who says he resigned from the group in 1984 and asked for his name to be removed in 1986

“I don’t ever remember hearing about his resigning, but I really wasn’t worried about that part of our activities, a housekeeping thing,” said Singlaub. “If he didn’t want to be on the board that’s OK. It wasn’t as if he had been active participant and we were going to miss his help. He had no active interest. He certainly supported us.”

So, McCain pretty much did zip with the group. And the only person with so-called Nazi ties was Roger Pearson, who, after become the chairman in 1979, was expelled in 1980 for connections to neo-Nazi groups, which means……that’s right, he was gone well before McCain became a “member.”

Funny how the story showed up on The Huffington Post and The Daily Kos, and now is showing up in the Credentialed Media.

After 8 years of listening to the massive whining from Democrats and their supporters about Bush having stolen the 2000 election, calling him the pResident, then claiming the GOP stole the 2004 election, issues that have never stopped being a cause to make Liberals wacko, we get this from Cynthia Tucker at the Baltimore Sun (she is also the editorial page editor for the Atlanta Democrat Journal-Constitution)

The base of the Republican Party - a dwindling but still significant group - clings to a handful of pseudo-facts that don’t hold up to serious scrutiny but that still occupy a central place in GOP ideology. Those include the assertion that Saddam Hussein represented a threat to the United States, that affirmative action in lending led to the mortgage crisis and that voter fraud is a serious problem in modern elections. In campaign seasons such as this, when victory may turn on a handful of votes, none of those claims is more important to Republican activists than overhyped allegations of voter fraud.

During the last decade, GOP-dominated state legislatures around the country have used assertions of mischief at the ballot box to push through harsh voter ID laws, requiring voters to present state-sponsored photo identification cards when they go to the polls. Republican strategists have also pushed prosecutors to go after allegedly fraudulent voters.

Those GOP strategists know better: One study after another has shown that voter fraud is, at worst, extremely rare. And the sort of in-person fraud that would be prevented by stiff voter ID laws is virtually nonexistent. But Karl Rove and his minions also know this: Voter ID laws can be used to disenfranchise a few hundred or a few thousand voters who are more likely to vote Democratic, usually poor or elderly voters who don’t have driver’s licenses. In close races, shaving off 1 or 2 percentage points is all you need to claim victory.

Are you snickering and chuckling right now? Democrats whined beyond belief about fraud, all the while registering the homeless, foreigners, illegal aliens, pets, dead pets, dead people, and felons, not to mention registering to vote in multiple states. This is a central point in many liberals’ world, with tons of threads at the Democratic Underground, Brad Blog, Daily Kos, etc. The Democrat Party, the Kerry camp, and now the Obama camp deployed massive amounts of lawyers all over the country because they were worried about cheating. But, hey, it is a GOP only issue, you know.

Plus, we got a Karl Rove and Saddam Hussein mention!

All the GOP has tried to do is respond to the whining by Democrats, as well as the reality of the real voter fraud perpatraded by Democrats, with common sense. Having to show an ID is apparently completely out of bound for the Democrats, which should let you know what’s in their heads. The Supreme Court has upheld needing ID to vote, BTW, Cynthia.

Ah, but meanwhile, let’s hear from someone who know a bit better then an editorial writer,

Our nation may be on the brink of repeating the 2000 Florida election debacle, but this time in several states, with allegations of voter fraud, intimidation and flawed voting machines added to the generalized chaos that sent Bush v. Gore to the Supreme Court for overtime.

“If you think of election problems as akin to forest fires, the woods are no drier than they were in 2000, but many more people have matches,” says Doug Chapin, editor of the nonpartisan Electionline.org.

The article itself is written by John Fund, who wrote “Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.” I reckon he knows a bit on the subject.

And, what Cynthia missed was that the Baltimore Sun just ran an editorial called “Voter Beware” on the issue of fraud, which a reader took issue with, since it didn’t bother to mention ACORN.

And I guess she missed this

Thousands Of Dead People On Connecticut’s Voter Rolls

and

More Dead, Underage And Fictitious Voter Registrations in Indiana, From ACORN

Nothing to see, move along. But, heck, in Democrat World, having a split ballot is almost voter fraud. It certainly is an issue to the Democrats, when, as we saw in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004, Democrat voters are just not smart enough to follow directions in filling the ballots out.

Oh, BTW, Democrats have controlled both branches of Congress since 2007, and had control of the Senate till january 2003. What have they done to help reduce fraud? It’ll never go away, nor will the dirty tricks, that is part of politics.

Seriously, these people on the Left should have continued their therapy sessions after the 2004 election. Of course, they probably seeked out psychiatrists that were Liberals, too. Case in point

What a bizarre (and tawdry) series-of-tubes headache for the McCain campaign.

How could it be that a Web site titled “VoteForTheMilf” redirects users to Republican nominee John McCain’s official campaign Website? True stuff. Or at least it was until someone mysteriously un-directed the redirection.

As of just moments ago, anyone who typed “www.voteforthemilf.com” into his or her Web browser and hit enter was immediately redirected to McCain’s site, www.johnmccain.com, where vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin greeted first-time users via video. (The .net and .org versions of voteforthemilf also redirected users to the mccain campaign site.)

The curious linkage was first discovered by GovGap. As you can see at Network Solutions, the “voteforthemilf” domain was created on Aug. 29, the same day that McCain announced Palin as his running mate.

Would it surprise you that the above comes from a Washington Post blog? Or that “The Sleuth gives a tip of the ‘ole hat to our colleague on Style, intrepid lampooner Libby Copeland, who happened upon an item on the dreaded URL snafu on the Washington City Paper’s blog.” It shouldn’t, considering the derangement syndrome for anything that they do not like they express.

It shouldn’t surprise you that the Washington City Paper go their info from a very hard left site, with the Washington Post following next. All three are making allegations they cannot back up with, you know, facts. I found it via Memeorandum from Crooks and Liars. The Post makes insinuations and accusations, all designed to make you think this is some sort of nefarious plot!

But, if we look it up at Network Solutions, we see: Web Site Title: VoteForTheMILF.com/.net/.org was a simple prank. | n00tz.net. Could it be BS? Sure. The info for my address is wrong, too.

BTW, I own mybarackobama.us. I’ve owned it for a few months, haven’t done a thing with it. I just set it up to redirect to thepiratescove.us, should take affect shortly.

The death of sanity and journalistic ethics occured in 2008.