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Four lessons from media’s obsession with Weinergate

Wayne Allyn Root
Contributor

1) Weapons of mass distraction:

Why Weiner must go

4:28 PM 06/08/2011

Have you seen the movie Dinner for Schmucks? Now we have a sequel, Twitter for Schmucks, starring Congressman Anthony Weiner.

Worse than 1929?

12:39 PM 06/02/2011

I am a successful small businessman and a patriot who loves America and always sees its greatness. I am also an optimistic, positive thinker who always sees the glass as half full.

Does anyone in the GOP want to beat Obama?

1:28 PM 05/18/2011

Republican presidential contenders are melting like tourists on the Vegas Strip, without sunscreen, on a 117 degree day in July. Doesn’t anyone in the GOP actually want to run against the worst president in modern American history?

The unraveling of a Ponzi scheme

2:59 PM 05/17/2011

The news media in this country are in a stupor. Either out of ignorance or out of complete leftist bias and fraud to protect their socialist hero Barack Obama, the mainstream media has turned a blind eye to the enormous disaster facing our economy. The greatest Ponzi scheme in world history is coming to an end, leaving America on the precipice of economic Armageddon. Here are the facts the mainstream media does not want you to see -- hiding in plain sight just like Osama bin Laden was.

Osama is dead, but government is still a failure

10:00 PM 05/11/2011

Like the rest of America, I cheered at the news of the killing of Osama bin Laden. I was thrilled. It made my night -- and the next day too. One of the most vile, evil villains of modern history had been eliminated. If you weren’t celebrating, there is a chip missing from your DNA.

What’s behind Trump’s rise?

4:16 PM 04/20/2011

I have spent the past few years predicting economic Armageddon on TV and radio shows across America. I have predicted the collapse of the dollar, the decline of the economy, the dangers of the debt and the Fed, and the incredible rise of gold and silver. All these predictions have been “on the money,” while the liberal media has scoffed, rolled their eyes, and called me a fool. Monday's downgrade of the U.S. economy by Standard & Poor’s should be a wake-up call to everyone, even the media. America is in deep trouble. Economic Armageddon is fast approaching. The media need only look in the mirror to find the fool.

Obamageddon: Signs that we are on the verge of another Great Depression

6:04 PM 03/29/2011

The best professional poker players in the world earn millions by reading and reacting to “tells," their opponents’ verbal and nonverbal traits. They notice the way an opponent is smiling, frowning, laughing, tapping their hands, sweating, or blinking their eyes. All these “tells” can be signs of their opponent's cards. For poker players, the ability to read "tells" is the difference between living the life of their dreams and going bankrupt.

A small businessman’s plea to Obama — you’re killing us

6:29 PM 03/26/2011

I’ve started more than a dozen small businesses. I’ve paid payrolls, health insurance, payroll taxes, workers comp, and unemployment insurance for hundreds of employees.

King Obama

1:36 PM 03/09/2011

It’s funny how life works. Even when I agree with Barack Obama, I am still offended by his Big Brother attitude and nanny state tactics. Obama’s actions remind me of a dictator who thinks he knows better than you or me. Last week, President Barack Obama erased any doubt that he sees himself as a king rather than as the elected servant of the American people. Obama declared he would not defend a law passed by the Congress of the United States called DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act).

How Obama would solve the NFL labor crisis

2:48 PM 03/07/2011

Some are now saying that President Obama should get involved in the NFL strike talks, which raises an interesting question: How would Obama handle the NFL strike talks?

Why aren’t we on strike?

12:39 PM 02/28/2011

Private-sector workers should be the ones striking in the streets of Wisconsin. They’re the ones who have to support government workers’ bloated salaries and pensions. But private-sector workers can’t afford to take a day off, let alone a week. Doesn’t that say everything? Only government employees, with their powerful unions, lifetime job security, short workweeks, loads of sick days, nonstop holidays, early retirement, and huge pensions, can afford to stand in the street protesting. Common sense tells us anyone with this much time to protest and the ability to abandon their work duties is greatly overpaid.

Walker should fire striking Wisconsin teachers

12:59 PM 02/23/2011

In 1981, when the air traffic controllers went on strike, Ronald Reagan fired them all. Can you imagine? Air traffic controllers -- unique individuals with rare and valuable skills, thought irreplaceable, fired en masse. And we never noticed. Supervisors filled their shoes for months while new ones were trained. Not a single accident. What happened to those air traffic controllers who lost today’s equivalent of $100,000-per-year jobs? Few ever found jobs with that kind of pay again.

Obama: The Ginsu salesman of taxes, spending & socialism

9:38 PM 02/16/2011

This isn’t insanity. It’s insanity squared. Since the day Obama took office, he has tried to fleece, tax, regulate, redistribute, harass, and hound small business to death. I’ve argued again and again in media appearances and commentaries that Obama’s strategy appears to be right out of the playbook of Cloward & Piven, two Marxist professors from Columbia University (where Obama and I graduated as classmates in 1983). That strategy is overwhelming the business community, taxpayers, and high-income earners with so many socialist, Big Brother-like, job-killing bills, that we get dizzy and exhausted trying to keep up with them. Eventually they overwhelm the economy, cause massive unemployment, crisis, and dependency on big government. It’s happening before our very eyes -- millions of Americans are now on 99 weeks of unemployment benefits and 45 million are dependent on food stamps. The system is officially overwhelmed.

Mubarak’s ego turns crisis into tragedy

8:51 PM 02/10/2011

On Thursday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak turned a crisis into a tragedy. His disastrous decision not to resign could very well lead to the end of Egypt as we know it. It will almost certainly lead to destruction. Mubarak is so tone deaf that he stoked the flames of the anti-Mubarak revolution. Now there is no way for this to end peacefully. The Egyptian crisis is now all but fated to end in tragedy.

Rules for radicals: Obama’s re-election deception

7:32 PM 02/09/2011

As Obama’s college classmate at Columbia, I was familiar with the teachings of our Marxist professors, Cloward and Piven. Following their strategy, Obama launched his original plan to distract America and overwhelm the system with Obamacare, cap and trade, the stimulus, extending unemployment benefits, card check, banning offshore oil drilling, suing Arizona for enforcing federal laws against illegal immigration, onerous new environmental and banking regulations, and even an attempt to make Puerto Rico the 51st state. We couldn’t keep up with all the socialist bills and proposals. That was precisely the point -- create a crisis, overwhelm the system, and make our heads spin with multiple distractions.

The media’s coverage of the Egypt crisis has been one-sided

12:55 PM 02/03/2011

The media has done it again. They’ve presented the wrong message to the American people about the Egyptian crisis, and it’s not just because of the liberal bias of the U.S. media. It’s also because liberal and conservative media outlets have the same agenda: to sensationalize stories in order to raise ratings. They’re interested in creating the story that sells best. Facts come second.

What Obama’s State of the Union speech has in common with Taco Bell

1:34 PM 01/27/2011

I agree with the liberal blogosphere -- Obama’s State of the Union was “Reaganesque.” Well written and well delivered. Awe-inspiring. Except that it was all distortions, false promises, and bait and switch. Don’t believe a word. It was pure sales and marketing, with zero substance. It was the same old “Cash for Flunkers.” Failed programs renamed “investments” in order to sell the con.