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Update: Apparently, there was advanced advertising for this movie on Thursday, July 14th, in the LA TIMES- an obscure listing- one line- and- perhaps someone looking for The Undefeated in Orange County may have allegedly found a listing for 12:45 am. In the article- Conor says he was going to a 12:45 am showing, but the ad lists the time as 12:01 am. Perhaps Conor may not be in collusion with a movie theater manager, but why, if he wanted to interview Palin Supporters, would he go a midnight showing that was barely advertised? We stick by our story that this was a rigged MSM event perpetrated by Conor Friedersdorf for the sole purpose of discrediting the movie’s weekend release and even Sarah Palin herself. Here is the story as we originally published it, along with a screenshot of the obscure listing for the movie:
Secret Showing of The Undefeated For Lone Reporter?
William Collier
Palin Movie- The Undefeated- meets MSM ploy to report an ’empty theater’ at midnight, the night before the opening?
Did Conor Friedersdorf from The Atlantic arrange to have a secret showing of “The Palin Movie, The Undefeated” just so he could say “the theater was empty”?
Orange California seems to have jumped the gun on The Undefeated movie, which debuts today in 10 cities in the US, with a special midnight showing for a a reporter from The Atlantic.
Conor Friedersdorf wrote breathlessly about an “empty theater” for a “debut.” The progressive journolist may have been told about such a showing but we know that nobody knew anything about it.
How did we know?
Our company, Kross Publishing, has been engaged in online marketing support and mobilizing a group of on the ground Hosts and virtual Ambassadors, and there has never been any mention of or advertising for any midnight showing.
The open question is: how did this reporter, Conor Friedersdorf, KNOW about this totally un-advertised showing that our company, which is working on marketing for the film, did not know about?
Movie theaters CAN show a movie like this, without notice, and if advanced ticket sales are high or decent, they might use an extra screen for a showing that is not scheduled. In this case the theater chose to do that, but on the same night of the big debut of Harry Potter: hardly an auspicious time for a movie that has a niche audience as opposed to a large general audience.
How then was everyone surprised about this showing save a lefty reporter?
It is possible, as one of our staff suggested, that the theater manager and the reporter are buddies, or someone inside the theater knew the reporter. It is also possible that Conor Friedersdorf, lefty that he is, knows that theaters can sometimes do a midnight showing and that he watched online until he saw this suddenly open up and decided, instead of covering the official debut, that he would call an unscheduled, un-advertised midnight showing the “debut” and use that to smear the movie.
Perhaps he thought he would win a Pulitzer for his little stunt, but anyone with any kind of horse sense knows that you don’t choose an unscheduled, un-advertised showing of a movie not scheduled to debut until later in the day (the official evening showing today, Friday July 15, 2011) to, as he claimed, “interview” attendees.
Conor did not want to interview attendees, otherwise he would have chosen a time that was advertised, not an unscheduled, un-advertised midnight showing.
This reporter’s cute little stunt goes right to the heart of what the movie is about- the blatant attempts by the journolist media elites to impugn, smear, and destroy anyone who does not go along with their Progressive ideology.
You may not want to vote for Sarah Palin, but this little episode reveals why Palin supporters and conservatives in general want to see this movie- for here is laid bare the media’s ongoing war against the freedom of conservatives, Christians, and non-Progressives through the very same types of stunts pulled by this Conor character.
Tickets for the movie are available here- http://theundefeated.cinedigm.com/tickets.html
The purpose of Conor’s report is clear- he was fishing for the headline he wanted to write, i.e. “Sarah Palin Movie Debuts to Empty Theater in Orange County.”
Perhaps the real headline should read, “The Atlantic Covers Unadvertised, Unscheduled Movie Showing As Debut.”
This just in- on the day before The Atlantic hit the stands there were no sales for that issue!
Part three- Kevin Williamson Calls His Own Boss An Infant?
Kevin Williamson, the NRO’s false prophet
Why is Kevin Williamson rejecting Supply Side Economics, contradicting his own boss, in favor of stagnation as “austerity’ to somehow save the government at all costs?
Williamson’s perspective is the real problem.
For Williamson and other closet Progressives, the focus is on saving the Federal Government by having the American People, who have long demanded BETTER, bail out a system that has not only failed them but that has betrayed them.
Did people vote for the GOP majority during the Bush years only to see closet Progressives and false prophets like Williamson and his blue-blooded pals act no better than the Democrats during the Supply Side Boom? They expected better, but, instead, they were betrayed.
His elitist thinking comes through clearly, and he never lays a glove on the real culprit behind America’s fiscal mess, as we see from a recent attack on Supply Side Economics, “the concurrent Republican majorities in both houses of Congress didn’t manage to cut spending, either. Part of that was circumstances — 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, the subprime meltdown — but part of it was the fact that a poorly applied supply-side analysis has infantilized Republicans when it comes to the budget. They love to cut taxes but cannot bring themselves to cut spending: It’s eat dessert first and leave the spinach on the table.” From His May 2010 piece
So “supply-side analysis” has “infantilized” Republicans.
Supply Side economics has not one damned thing to do with the present fiscal crisis!
The problem is a “pro-government” policy instead of a pro-growth, or pro-People, policy!
Of course, Williamson is throwing down the gauntlet to his own boss, Richard Lowry, who back in September of 2010, responded to a progressive (Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne) who sounds a lot like Mr Williamson.
The Progressive talking head said, “One idea is to put on the table, one of the things you could do with the money you save from not giving the tax cut to people earning over $1 million, you could either redistribute the rest of that to people down below a million, or you could begin to create an infrastructure bank to try to build us for the long-term. You need to look like you’re making a–you’re drawing a clear line with the Republicans.”
Lowry’s response must have seemed “infantile” to Williamson when he said, “But there, there, there you’re sucking money out of the economy in the short-term in order for the long-term in a weak economy. That makes no sense. Raising taxes, there’s no theory in which rais(ing) taxes in a slow economy makes sense. Read more:
Mr. Lowry, tell that to Mr. Williamson who is doing his best to parrot the Dionne line, and making conservatives rethink the NRO’s bona fides!
Kevin Williamson, National Review, NRO, National Review Online
Part two- Kevin Williamson, Is He For Government Or The People?
William R Collier Jr
Williamson’s thesis is that the Federal Government is “too big to fail” so he wants “austerity” coupled with tax increases to bail out DC!
What if the Federal Government fails? It would be bad, it would be horrible, but people would find ways to keep living, they always do. What is worse is if we keep focusing so much of our energy and wealth on bailing out the profligate spenders in DC at the expense of our economic future and, increasingly, our very freedom!
It seems that the profligate elites think they have America over a barrel- they have made a massive machine that is feeding on our children’s future and they have convinced many, like Williamson, that that machine must be kept going or it’s the end of the world!
I am not buying it any longer, it’s the old welfare-warfare state trying to justify its existence at any cost, as if we cannot live without such a Behemoth strolling about in DC.
The Progressives on both sides of the aisle, including Mr. Williamson, have failed utterly. The intervention of the state into private affairs in order to “manage for results” is leading to a massive loss of personal freedom and personal opportunity, and it is a contributing factor in our economic malaise and the corruption we keep finding in our elected officials who are assuming a messiah-complex.
Rather than admit their failure, people like Williamson try to use their “media pulpit” to convince people that this malaise is the “new normal” and, with shocking disregard for the common man, that working stiffs like us need to just “live with” high taxes, stagnate wages, and decreased economic opportunities.
Williamson does have his defenders.
As far back as last year Williamson was trying to carry water for the Progressive agenda, attacking “Supply Side Economics” itself. In his May 2010 piece he said, incredulously, “Properly understood, there were no Reagan tax cuts.”
His Progressive logic is that because spending did not go down (it increased faster than the increased revenue which came from the growth spurred by the tax cuts), taxes weren’t cut, “they were deferred.” From his high, and evidently unassailable, position at the NRO, Williamson is taking the position that because the Progressives can’t or won’t stop their spending, we must raise taxes.
In the process, however, he assails the truth with his Progressive propaganda that somehow tax cuts weren’t cuts but deferrals and that the Supply Side approach, which says that you increase revenue by growth instead of taxes, did not work. Williamson’s Progressivism is stunning, considering that he represents what purports to be the conservative voice of record!
He attacks Supply Side because, despite lowering taxes and seeing growth that led to increased revenue, the Progressives out-spent that growth. He never even considers critiquing the fact that his Progressive friends, for surely they must be his friends since he carries their water so well, are to blame for their profligate spending!
Clearly, Kevin Williamson is for the government (his stagnation as “austerity” agenda based on saving the government, despite the cost to the People) and not for the People.
Part One- The False Prophet of Doom?
William R Collier Jr.- Has The NRO’s Kevin Williamson become a false prophet, falling for the trap laid by the Progressive machine?
Here’s the gist of Kevin Williamson’s apostasy- we can’t reduce the deficit or the debt without raising taxes and to even try for a 5% growth rate is pure fantasy, therefore the only solution is to try to reduce spending AND raise taxes, including a Valued Added Tax (VAT).
The problem for Mr. Williamson is twofold- he is falling for a typical Progressive trick and he is, as the “boss” over at NRO, making that once-conservative institution into a virtual apologist for the Progressive party line that growth is bad and taxes are good.
Williamson says he is both for growth and austerity, but his prescription is wrong on two counts- he is focused on saving government instead of the People, and he wants to do things that will ensure that no growth occurs, while he is convinced that 2% is the best America can “expect.”
Kevin Williamson has become the false prophet for an anti-growth, Progressive message of big government coming before the People. He denies that a 5% growth rate is feasible and clings to a 2% growth rate that would reduce working stiffs to near poverty within 10 years because that kind of annual growth doesn’t even equal the population growth!
Not only is he willing to “settle” for such a low “growth rate”, which is not really growth at all on a per-capita basis, but he is also willing to settle, it seems, for the “new normal” of high unemployment, massive regulation, and massive new taxes.
He fails to understand that Progressives want to create exactly this kind of crisis in order to force “deficit hawks” like Williamson (the old GOP, before the Supply Siders, fell for it all the time) to lobby the conservative base for going along with more taxes because, after all, we can never expect spending to really go down and we can never expect the kind of growth that was predicted and achieved by Supply Siders during the Supply Side Boom of the Reagan years.
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The following is a commentary designed to provoke Christian thought and debate around one question- if we give our vote to a godless, abomidable Party that denies the need for God’s truth in our laws and public policy, are we ourselves participating in their godless rejection of Jesus Christ? I say, yes, if Christians give their votes to ANY member of such a godless Party that officially rejects God and His righteousness, then they are personally guilty of that Party’s sin and have fallen from Grace. You cannot serve both God and mammon, you cannot be both a Christ-follower and a supporter of a godless Party!
America has rejected God, primarily through the godless Democrats who have embraced a godless secularism that defies the truth of God with their love of so-called “gay marriage” and abortion, among other godless beliefs and practices.
The Democrats reject, out of hand, any notion that any beliefs they deem to be based on morality or religion should have any influence over public policy- even if the People VOTE for policies and laws that reflect their beliefs.
Democrats have a peculiar version of “democracy” in which ONLY ideas mined from the depths of their godless beliefs are “allowed” as options for voters. This is like the “democracy” of the USSR where voters could only choose from a slate of candidates picked by the Party.
Democrats want to limit YOUR choices to a slate of ideas, excluding every idea they deem to be “religious” or “moral” and in so doing they are in total rebellion against God.
Republicans are not always much better, but they do not officially and consistently deny the value of religious beliefs, or the participation of people who have strong religious or moral beliefs, in the public policy debate. The Party, as an instution, does not officially reject the need for guidance from the Word of God, but the Democrats do.
We must seriously question the spiritual sanity of any so-called “Christian” who throws in their lot with the Democrats. Christians who can’t support the Republicans or a third party candidate do better by not voting than to give their vote to a godless Party that is the single-greatest champion of blasphemy and abominations in this nation’s history.
On National Repentance Day let us repent of our participation in the godlessness of the Democratic Party and by denying our votes to ANYONE who is a member of this godless and abomidable Party.
National Repentance Day, November 6, 2012
Stop participating in the godlessness of the Democratic Party!
Osama Bin Laden is dead….killed in a mansion. As he sends 12 yr olds on suicide missions, he led a cozy life in a mansion in Islamabad. Now., that comfortable life is no more-
Here is the President’s Remarks on the death of Osama Bin Laden:
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
11:35 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.
It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. The images of 9/11 are seared into our national memory — hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky; the Twin Towers collapsing to the ground; black smoke billowing up from the Pentagon; the wreckage of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the actions of heroic citizens saved even more heartbreak and destruction.
And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world. The empty seat at the dinner table. Children who were forced to grow up without their mother or their father. Parents who would never know the feeling of their child’s embrace. Nearly 3,000 citizens taken from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts.
On September 11, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other, and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.
We were also united in our resolve to protect our nation and to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice. We quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda — an organization headed by Osama bin Laden, which had openly declared war on the United States and was committed to killing innocents in our country and around the globe. And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies.
Over the last 10 years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counterterrorism professionals, we’ve made great strides in that effort. We’ve disrupted terrorist attacks and strengthened our homeland defense. In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government, which had given bin Laden and al Qaeda safe haven and support. And around the globe, we worked with our friends and allies to capture or kill scores of al Qaeda terrorists, including several who were a part of the 9/11 plot.
Yet Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pakistan. Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the world.
And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network.
Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.
Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.
For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda’s leader and symbol, and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies. The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat al Qaeda.
Yet his death does not mark the end of our effort. There’s no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us. We must –- and we will — remain vigilant at home and abroad.
As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not –- and never will be -– at war with Islam. I’ve made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own. So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.
Over the years, I’ve repeatedly made clear that we would take action within Pakistan if we knew where bin Laden was. That is what we’ve done. But it’s important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding. Indeed, bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan as well, and ordered attacks against the Pakistani people.
Tonight, I called President Zardari, and my team has also spoken with their Pakistani counterparts. They agree that this is a good and historic day for both of our nations. And going forward, it is essential that Pakistan continue to join us in the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates.
The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens. After nearly 10 years of service, struggle, and sacrifice, we know well the costs of war. These efforts weigh on me every time I, as Commander-in-Chief, have to sign a letter to a family that has lost a loved one, or look into the eyes of a service member who’s been gravely wounded.
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are. And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror: Justice has been done.
Tonight, we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who’ve worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. The American people do not see their work, nor know their names. But tonight, they feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice.
We give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism, and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country. And they are part of a generation that has borne the heaviest share of the burden since that September day.
Finally, let me say to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11 that we have never forgotten your loss, nor wavered in our commitment to see that we do whatever it takes to prevent another attack on our shores.
And tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed. Yet today’s achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.
The cause of securing our country is not complete. But tonight, we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it’s the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place.
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.
END 11:44 P.M. EDT
Here is how the blogosphere sees this great moment for all Americans:
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50 minutes ago by Brian Beutler
Osama Bin Laden is dead, U.S. government officials confirm to TPM. Bin Laden was the founder and leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network that perpetrated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
David Wilkerson, the man best known for writing the autobiographical book, THE CROSS AND THE SWITCHBLADE, and also the founder of the worldwide Christian Outreach ministry for youth, TEEN CHALLENGE, was killed instantly today in a car crash in Texas. He had recently moved to Texas, where he lived for the last 13 months. He leaves behind four adult children, two sons and two daughters.
Details of the accident are not yet available, but THE FREEDOMIST has learned that his wife, Gwen, has been life-lifted to a hospital in critical condition. THE FREEDOMIST asks our readers to pray for Gwen and the Family of David Wilkerson that must now come to grips with this sudden and terrible loss.
We will update this story as we get more information.
We remember David Wilkerson for his stunning message he delivered not too long ago about the state of Christian America, the state of the Kingdom of God, A CALL TO ANGUISH, which we encourage our readers to listen to again, and remember a great man who left a powerful legacy in the lives of thousands, if not millions.
For my fellow Christians, I call on you to repent for letting the kingdom fall to ruins. I call on you to know anguish, the anguish of death, the anguish of lost souls. Then I call on you take your place at the wall, and rebuild.
For my fellow Freedomists, I call on you to repent for letting this nation be ruined by corruption, concentrations of power, and the silence that followed Kelo v New London, where the Supreme Court granted powers of the land to any government that chose to take it.
More on David Wilkerson’s life: from wikipedia
Wilkerson served as a pastor in small churches in Scottdale and Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, until he saw a photograph in Life Magazine in 1958 of seven New York City teenagers charged with murder. He later wrote that as he felt the Holy Spirit move him with compassion, he was drawn to go to New York in February 1958. It was then that he began his street ministry.
Wilkerson is well-known for these early years of his ministry to young drug addicts and gang members in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s. He co-authored a book with John and Elizabeth Sherrill about his work with the New York drug addicts, The Cross and the Switchblade, which became a best-seller. Included in the book is the story of the conversion of gang member Nicky Cruz, who later wrote the autobiographical Run Baby Run about his own life. The Cross and the Switchblade has sold over 50 million copies in over thirty languages since it was published in 1963. In 1970, a Hollywood movie based on the book starred Pat Boone as Wilkerson and Erik Estrada as Cruz. The book was included on Christianity Today’s “The Top 50 Books That Have Shaped Evangelicals” [1]
In 1958, Wilkerson founded Teen Challenge, an evangelical Christian recovery program and a network of Christian social and evangelizing work centers.[2] In 1967, Wilkerson began Youth Crusades, an evangelistic ministry aimed at teenagers whom Wilkerson called “goodniks” — middle-class youth who were restless and bored. His goal was to prevent them from becoming heavily involved with drugs, alcohol, or violence. Through this ministry, the CURE Corps (Collegiate Urban Renewal Effort) was founded. It was intended to be something of a Christian version of the Peace Corps and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).
In 1971, Wilkerson moved his ministry headquarters to Lindale, Texas, where he founded World Challenge, an organization whose mission is to promote and spread the Gospel throughout the world.
In 1986, while walking down 42nd Street in New York City at midnight, Wilkerson believes that the Holy Spirit called him to return to New York City and to raise up a ministry in Times Square. This resulted in the establishment of Times Square Church, which opened its doors in October 1987. The church first occupied rented auditoriums in Times Square (Town Hall and the Nederlander Theater), later moving to the historic Mark Hellinger Theatre, which the ministry purchased in 1989 and in which it has operated ever since.
Since the 1990s, Wilkerson has focused his efforts to encourage pastors and their families throughout the world to “renew their passion for Christ”. In his own words:
“I’ve been an evangelist for 50 years, but I didn’t want to preach to pastors until I had gray hair, until I’d pastored. Now after 15 years of pastoring, sharing the hurts, pains, and difficulties of the ministry as a pastor, I felt the Lord finally release me, that I might have something to say
