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So ABC, they of the legacy media, have decided to hype the “hate” groups that, you know, hate HRH The Sun King. They have a shiny story that even says so.

And in New Hampshire, another man stood across the street from a Presidential town hall with his gun on full display.

Quick, queue scary music.

Ya know, you guys from Manhattan and DC might want to get out of the air conditioned offices. We here in the Granite State, you know the Live Free or Die state have this thing called open carry. Amazingly enough, in some states it is absolutely and perfectly legal, and I hear we even have this thing called the 2nd Amendment, though it’s not taught in those liberal bastions, that allows us here in the NEW HAMPSHIRE to openly carry a hand gun.

I know, who would have thought that a “major” legacy news agency wouldn’t bother to, you know, check their facts.

Sigh…

Meanwhile let’s go over some real hate groups.

An African-American man from Mississippi admits posing as a white supremacist to send a death threat across state lines by Facebook.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 20-year-old Dyron L. Hart of Poplarville pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a threat in November 2008.

Hart admitted creating a name and using a white supremacists’ photo to pose as a white man who planned to kill blacks because Barack Obama had been elected president.

Er, ok, maybe not that real hate group.

How about people being physically threatened while they exercise their fundamental right to participate in their republican country?

The charges stemmed from an incident at a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008 when three members of the party were accused of trying to threaten voters and block poll and campaign workers by the threat of force — one even brandishing what prosecutors call a deadly weapon.

And in case you think this was a VRWC type of situation, we have this quote.

A poll watcher who provided an affidavit to prosecutors in the case noted that Bartle Bull, who worked as a civil rights lawyer in the south in the 1960′s and is a former campaign manager for Robert Kennedy, said it was the most blatant form of voter intimidation he had ever seen.

In his affidavit, obtained by FOX News, Bull wrote “I watched the two uniformed men confront voters and attempt to intimidate voters. They were positioned in a location that forced every voter to pass in close proximity to them. The weapon was openly displayed and brandished in plain sight of voters.”

He also said they tried to “interfere with the work of other poll observers … whom the uniformed men apparently believed did not share their preferences politically,” noting that one of the panthers turned toward the white poll observers and said “you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.”

So all you crackers out there, don’t forget to bow down to HRH The Sun King while the legacy media cooks up scary stories that are nothing while ignoring real cases.

Of course that’s why no one is reading their newspapers or watching their tv shows. But hey, it’s a good thing they have all those layers of fact checkers and editors. Makes it easier to layoff people when you can prove quite easily that they’re incompetent beyond belief. Because you know, why let facts get in the way of a good story.

This is Charlton Heston’s famous closing remarks at the NRA national meeting. Listen to his words at the beginning of the speech. They are, incredibly well written. Please give it a listen.

Janeane Garofalo on Dissent from therightscoop on Vimeo.

I’m not being silly.  Now, many bloggers are talking about the actions of Google, but I haven’t yet seen the obvious solution.

Google is now filtering out Conservative ‘zines and newsources, this article on Newsbusters had an interesting quote:

As reported by NewsBusters, the most recent occurrence of this unexplained phenomenon was Friday, May 19, when Frank Salvato, proprietor of The New Media Journal, realized that his content that day hadn’t been disseminated at Google News as it had been on a daily basis since he reached an agreement with the search engine in September 2005.

After sending the Google Help Desk a query concerning the matter, Salvato was informed that there had been complaints of “hate speech” at his website, and as a result, The New Media Journal would no longer be part of Google News. As evidence of his offense, the Google Team supplied Salvato with links to three recent op-eds published by his contributing writers, all coincidentally about radical Islam and its relation to terrorism.

This is pretty heinous stuff. The Orwellian nature of the whole thing chills me to the bone. Now the obvious solution is that everyone single day every single conservative blogger has a responsibility to report at least 1 (preferably 2-3) liberal stories as hate speech. Obviously, Google can ignore that, but the question is, what if each of the reports is also reported to the media? What if hundreds and thousands of emails are flooding in every day pointing out the insanity and hate of the left?

To me, that’s the only viable solution. Will it happen? Probably not but this is a direct attack on the viability of conservatism to ignore it is to let go of any chance conservatives have of reaching people.