The Plagiarist Post

As it reads in our header, the mission of The Douchebag Report is to empower the fight against insanity. In our fight, we repeatedly expose how shameless and unscrupulous the mainstream media can be. Largely, we report on the hypocrisy of individuals, including reporters that maintain the Liberal tenet “do as I say, not as I do.”

What happens when these reporters go beyond hypocrisy and elect to endanger American society and weaken the government we’ve built to protect us? So far, the answer is: NOTHING. Accuracy In Media (AIM) has released an article that exposes the treasonous and plagairistic actions of The Washington Post with respect to Dana Priest’s exposure of CIA secret prisons. This lengthy article falls under the “must read” category. Here is an excerpt:

Winning a Pulitzer Prize for a story about CIA “secret prisons” has been quite lucrative for Dana Priest of the Washington Post. She now commands $15,000 - $20,000 a lecture (”only” $7,500 for a speech in the Washington, D.C. area, where she is based) and an official “fan site” has been established in her honor to promote her work. But the article for which she won the prize not only damaged the security of the United States and endangered the safety of American citizens but appears to have been largely based on the work of London-based journalist Stephen Grey.

The Washington Post must be called to task for such actions. Why is Dana Priest awarded a pulizter prize, when she should be branded with a scarlet “P” for plagiarism and tried for treason? The sad reality is that such actions are indeed celebrated. This should be a call to arms to the intelligent populace that wishes not to be insulted by such organizations.

Action Jackson

It appears that “race crusader” Jesse Jackson is at it again, this time avenging the sub-prime mortgage “crisis” that the United States is facing. The obvious way to resolve this situation is with a march on Wall Street:

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — Civil rights leaders including Jesse Jackson, founder of the Rainbow PUSH coalition, plan to hold rallies in New York City’s Wall Street district and at least six other cities to call for a corporate response to the “crisis” of surging home foreclosures.

As many as 2 million homes are at risk of foreclosure, Jackson said in a statement. The rallies will be held Dec. 10, and also sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and National Urban League. Other rallies will be held in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Detroit, New Orleans, Washington and Chicago.

Jackson’s plans show how the increase in delinquencies on subprime mortgages, some of which were the product of what Federal Reserve officials said were “lax” lending practices, is capturing political attention. Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton, a candidate for her party’s presidential nomination, this week called for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures.

Corporate response? Here’s one: people should take responsibility for their own actions. If one makes a risky financial decision, they are obligated to accept the consequences of that risk - good or bad. For the uninitiated, Michelle Malkin explains the cause of the current credit crunch in this article:

In case you’ve been living in a cave, there’s a painful credit crunch underway. The culprit is the subprime mortgage - a species of risky home loans to buyers with dubious credit and income. Cash-rich lenders doled out the subprimes hoping rising home prices would compensate for any failed bets. But when housing prices started plummeting and interest rates began rising, many borrowers started defaulting. Insolvency looms for countless lenders.

With these marches in mind, what exactly is Jesse Jackson trying to demonstrate? Is he once again attempting to portray urban blacks as victims that need constant federal protection? Is he proposing that federal lending institutions are racist organizations and must be corrected? Perhaps he’s attempting to dismiss the notion of sanctity of contract, proposing these homeowners facing the “crisis” should not be held accountable for their own actions, and that society as a whole must react to the bad decisions of others.

In any event, this further exposes Liberal hypocrisy. As Michelle Malkin explains:

Instead of letting lenders and subprime mortgage-holders suffer the consequences of their actions, politicians and grievance-mongers are riding to the supposed rescue. In a supreme irony, the very same champions of the needy in the Democrat Party who complain constantly about the lack of “affordable housing” are now fighting tooth and nail to keep housing prices high…

Ho-Ho-Holy Crap

Just when you thought that liberals in the United States have pushed the political correctness envelope, the Australian PC police have fired a department store Santa Claus for shouting “ho ho ho” - a term that may be considered offensive to women. According to this London Daily Mail article:

Santa has been given the sack - and not the kind he traditionally carries toys in.

He’s been booted out of the job because he wandered around the store where he worked calling “Ho Ho Ho” and singing Jingle Bells. And under the new rules of Christmas at the store, “ho ho ho” is a no no no. John Oakes, aged 70, should have been calling “ha ha ha” because the centuries-old version has been judged too frightening for little children - while their mothers might be offended because “ho” is American slang for a whore.

Last month the store sparked national outrage when it ordered its Santas to say “ha ha ha” instead of “ho ho ho” because it could be offensive to women.

Among Santa’s other offenses are the following:

• Angering anti-tobacco lobbies in exposing youth to second-hand pipe smoke
• Morbid obesity is a bad example to impressionable children
• Outrages PETA by wearing fur and leather goods
• Repeated breaking and entering charges
• Asks small children to climb in his lap
• The ‘naughty or nice’ list is unauthorized surveillance

Hypocrites Anonymous

 

Droves and droves of hypocrites - more than ten thousand of them - have descended upon the resort island of Bali to attend a conference on global warming. Politicians, scientists, and other activists will discuss critical issues such as “dangers of rising temperatures, melting polar ice, worsening droughts and floods, and lengthening heat waves.” Of course, all of this comes at a significant cost to the environment:

The U.N. estimates 47,000 tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants will be pumped into the atmosphere during the 12-day conference in Bali, mostly from plane flights but also from waste and electricity used by hotel air conditioners.

But, but, but…

In largely symbolic gestures, 200 bright-yellow mountain bikes are being offered to participants so they can pedal around the heavily guarded conference site, and recycled paper is being used for the documents being handed out. Bins separating plastic and paper dot hallways — a rare sight in a country where formal recycling is virtually non-existent.

Bright yellow mountain bikes? How many attendees plan on biking to the remote island of Bali? Unfortunately, that would be a grand total of zero (Couldn’t Al Gore stand to lose a few pounds?) Obviously, a vast majority of the conference attendees will arrive via less “green” methods — namely, good ole pollutin’ airplanes. For the next twelve days, host country Indonesia gets to celebrate the hypocrisy with the rest of the globe. In fact, Indonesia has been ceremoniously painting lipstick on the global warming pig, in preparation of Hypocrites Anonymous:

Host Indonesia, which has one of the fastest rates of deforestation in the world, averaging 300 football fields an hour, said it had planted 79 million trees across the archipelago nation in the past few weeks.

That’s all well and good, but this is not the first meeting of Hypocrites Anonymous, and it won’t be the last…

Two big climate conferences have been held in less than a month, both in idyllic, far-flung holiday destinations — first Valencia, Spain, and now Bali. They were preceded by dozens of smaller gatherings. In Bangkok, Paris, Vienna, Washington, New York and Sydney, in Rio de Janeiro, Anchorage, Helsinki and the Indian Ocean island of Kurumba.

The cost of this whole thing? Chris Goodall, author of the book “How to Live a Low-Carbon Life” has an opinion:

If correct, Goodall said, that is equivalent to what a Western city of 1.5 million people, such as Marseilles, France, would emit in a day.

But he believes the real figure will be twice that, more like 100,000 tons, close to what the African country of Chad churns out in a year.

A statistic like that should make Al Gore and like-minded hypocrites cry a low-carbon tear in their SUVs.

As for global warming? My ass…

Source - Seattplepi.com - More than 10,000 jet into Bali for global warming conference