Politiks As Usual: In The News 2/16/14

John Kerry Belittles Climate Questioners: ‘Flat Earth Society’ 

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Romney: Bill Clinton ‘Embarrassed the Nation,’ Shirked His Adult Responsibilities

Ugandan President Says He Will Sign Tough Antigay Measure

Twerking Miley Cyrus Pushes Homosexual Agenda

To think, this morally-bankrupt skank was almost TIME's "Person of the Year".

InfoWars.com:

An integral part of the prog political agenda is the demand that heterosexuals accept without question the “gay lifestyle.” The establishment and its corporate media insist the next phase in the struggle for human rights is centered squarely on homosexuality. As the Phil Robertson blow-up reveals, any disagreement with this agenda and refusal to affirm the gay lifestyle will result not only in censor, but economic warfare.

Next up, a photo of the former Disney teenage sweetheart morphed into licentious slut, Miley Cyrus, engaged in a tongue kiss with a super model that has an ancestry firmly rooted in royalty. The photo of Cyrus and Cara Delevingne kissing sports the symbol of gay “rights” – a rainbow.

Many will, of course, chalk this one up to Miley (or more likely her management team) taking her new outrageous public persona to its next level.

However, the timing of the release of the photo coincides with a determined push to propagandize the public and inure it to homosexuality. It is also an effort to condition the herd to accept the LGBT political agenda that prominently features intolerance of religious values or any social or political opposition to the creation of a special group of individuals supposedly deserving preferential treatment by the state.

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Miley Cyrus Endorses Killer Drug 'Molly'

CNN.com:

This week, Time magazine named Miley Cyrus a finalist for Person of the Year, the annual award bestowed on the person editors think has "most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year." A true testament to the global influence of twerking, she was the only nominee from the entertainment industry.

Her co-nominees included Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, President Obama, Pope Francis, and gay rights activist Edith Windsor.

The pope was the winner, but one thing's for certain: Miley Cyrus makes an impact. Regardless of whether you care about her latest performance or haircut or provocative, eyebrow-raising declaration to the press, it's likely you'll have heard about it. In part, that's owing to her affinity for ever-media-friendly shock, delivered in the form of a raunchy, nudity-filled music video; a raunchy, nudity-filled photo shoot with photographer Terry Richardson; and a raunchy awards show performance that likely would have contained some nudity had it been allowed. It did, however, contain a foam finger and a latex bodysuit. And a tongue that was a performer of its own.

Shocking behavior isn't uncommon in the entertainment industry, and especially in music. Shock, like sex, sells. But it's quite possible Cyrus isn't selling just shock, and albums. She's also selling drugs.

Earlier this year, Miley ended months of speculation that one of her song lyrics referred to "Molly," the nickname for psychedelic drug MDMA, or a form of Ecstasy. When she was asked if she was referring to her own name or the drug Molly in the song "We Can't Stop," she told The Daily Mail, "If you're aged 10, it's 'Miley.' If you know what I'm talking about, then you know."

In September, she offered a second endorsement, telling Rolling Stone that marijuana and Molly are "happy drugs -- social drugs. They make you want to be with friends."

What effect might the former Disney star's drug advocacy have on the legions of tween and teen fans who follow her every move?

A 2008 study looking at the influence of technology, media and pop culture on criminal behavior concluded that while young people are influenced by pop culture, and more so than adults, it was difficult to empirically study the cause and effect of pop culture on their behavior.

And certainly, the glorification of vice in music is not at the hands of Miley Cyrus alone: A 2008 study out of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine found that 33% of the top 300 songs on the top of the Billboard charts portrayed drug or alcohol use -- an increasing number of them pop songs -- which means that kids receive about 35 references to substance abuse for every hour of music they listen to.

That said, what we do know: Exposure to excessive violence in video games can increase aggressive attitudes, behaviors and values, particularly in children. And adolescent exposure to music, a powerful social force often linked to identity, memories and mood, is much more frequent than it is to any other form of pop culture.

According to the Pittsburgh School of Medicine study, most teens listen to an average of 16 hours each week of music, compared with about six hours each week for movies. Perhaps more than any other entertainment medium, the study authors wrote, "music is well known to connect deeply with adolescents and to influence identity development."

And so it's hard not to argue that Molly is likely reaping the benefits. The numbers are there: A 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 12.4% of Americans between 18 and 25 had experimented with MDMA, while a report released last week by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration stated that emergency room visits related to MDMA increased 128% between 2005 and 2011 among people younger than 21. 

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Miley Cyrus Smokes Weed Onstage At MTV Europe Music Awards

NYPost.com:

Just when you thought Miley couldn’t possibly have any more stunts up her sleeve, she pulls a blunt out of her purse.

Last night at the MTV EMAs in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the 20-year-old one-woman wrecking ball stunned the crowd and the viewing audience of millions by celebrating her “Best Video” award by taking out a joint from her purse and lighting up. 

The gesture was a nod to marijuana’s semi-legal status in the host country (possession of small amounts does not lead to arrest), but the act was nevertheless too hot to handle for MTV America who edited the entire sequence out of their delayed telecast.

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Conservative Actor James Woods on Left’s Hollywood Blacklist: ‘I Don’t Expect to Work Again’

In an industry dominated by the white, morally-bankrupt, liberal, elite, conservatives actors know that they are risking their livelihoods when speaking out against liberal terrorism:

Actor James Woods, one of the few outspoken, persistent critics of the Obama Administration in Hollywood realizes that he’s jeopardizing his career given the suffocating left-wing political correctness that so dominates the entertainment industry.

After calling out President Obama for his rank hypocrisy in closing down the World War II Memorial but allowing a protest of illegal aliens to occur at the “closed” National Mall, Woods acknowledged he was jeopardizing his future by condemning Obama as a “true abomination.”

“I don’t expect to work again,” Woods said on Twitter after being asked if he was putting his career at risk. “I think Barack Obama is a threat to the integrity and future of the Republic. My country first.” 

This is not the first time that Woods has criticized Obama. This past July, he condemned the president for increasing racial resentment and not encouraging work as the only path from poverty.

“ALL youth of every heritage in this country would benefit from jobs and manageable student loans, NOT a bloated Welfare State,” he said on Twitter after Obama claimed that he had witnessed people lock their doors when he approached them simply because he was a black man.

“The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...” he continued.

Kudos to Woods for being brave enough to speak up about his views despite the very real risk that he’s ended up on the left’s blacklist.

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Ratchet Queen Miley Cyrus Says She Didn't Know 40-Year-Olds Could Still Have Sex

EOnline.com:

Matt Lauer didn't go easy on Miley Cyrus when she appeared and performed during Today on Monday, Oct. 7. The co-anchor asked the pop star about everything from her risqué photo shoot with Terry Richardson to her war of words with Sinéad O'Connor—and Cyrus maintained her composure throughout the interview.

The TV journalist began by asking Cyrus about the constant controversy surrounding her name. "Are you surprised by the attention you're getting right now?" Lauer asked.

"Not really," the singer shrugged. "I mean, it's kind of what I want. I'm an artist, so I'm hoping that I get a little attention or my record sales might be a little sketch."

Lauer then asked Cyrus if her now-infamous MTV Video Music Awards performance was intentionally meant to shock viewers. "I don't ever really plan to offend people, but sometimes that just happens because I think people, they're not open to what they don't understand," the performer said. "But that's why when I'm singing for my fans, because they're all really young so they understand what I'm doing."

"Did it go exactly as you planned?" Lauer asked.

"It went exactly as I planned," Cyrus, 20, answered. "I mean, it's a month later and we're still talking about it, so it definitely went as planned."

"We talked about the performance, and obviously a lot of it was very provocative. I'm never going to go to a sporting game and look at a foam finger the same way...Add to that some of the photos I've seen of your recently on the internet. You had the naked shot on the video for 'Wrecking Ball.' It's very clear that you are...attempting to navigate tricky territory right now," Lauer said. "A lot of people have tried this in the past between child star and adult performer. Is it harder than you thought it would be?"

A confident Cyrus replied, "Nah, because this is just, like, who I am. I think it's only hard if you're trying to be something you're not. Being who you are is really easy if you're really true to that."

Lauer, 55, continued to grill the former Hannah Montana star, asking, "Is this a phase? Is the sexual side of you that we're seeing a lot of right now something that's going to be around for a while and then you move onto something else?"

Liam Hemsworth's ex-fiancée seized the opportunity to make a joke at Lauer's expense. "I heard when you turn 40, things start to go a little less sexual," she began.

"Don't say that," Lauer said with a smile.

"Probably around that time, I heard that's when people don't have sex anymore," Cyrus continued. "I guess maybe around then." Lauer then asked, "Do you know how old I am?"

Grinning from ear to ear, Cyrus responded, "I'm gonna guess 40." Lauer then asked Cyrus if she would do anything differently given the opportunity. "You can't change anything about it. I do a lot of things, but I can't change the past," she explained. "If I can't control it, I don't really think about it. I just live my life and I don't really think about anything."

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Morally Bankrupt Ratchet Queen Miley Cyrus Loses Fiance Liam Hemsworth

Actions have consequences and most good men don't sign up for longterm relationships (much less marriage) with classless women who behave like sluts in public. Then too, how could you expect a man to respect you if you don't respect yourself? Newly crowned ghetto queen Miley Cyrus has learned this lesson the hard way:

First came the twerking and the sledgehammer, then, at the weekend, we saw the first real indication that Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth were done and dusted — she unfollowed him on Twitter.

Now, a source close to the on-again, off-again couple confirms what everyone has feared: The ex-Disney starlet and her Australian hunk are officially “on a break.”

“They’ve split for now,” the insider told RadarOnline.com. “Miley and Liam have a very tumultuous relationship and both are exhausted. It’s a complicated relationship. The wedding is on hold, for now. It’s not cancelled but it doesn’t look promising.”

Confirmation of the split comes after a report that Hemsworth, 23, was canoodling with another woman at the Toronto Film Festival.

According to Page Six, the Hunger Games star was “locking lips with a random brunette” at LDV Hospitality’s pop-up club Bungalow 8 on the Thompson Hotel rooftop on September 7. Later, “they left together.”

A rep for Hemsworth has insisted: “There is no truth whatsoever to any of this.”

But as we previously reported, Hemsworth’s frustrations with his partner of almost four years have been bubbling since her controversial performance alongside Robin Thicke at the MTV VMAs.

“Liam really does care about Miley, but her racy new look and sort of ghetto attitude isn’t exactly what he signed up for,” a pal told Radar.

“Her VMA performance absolutely mortified him and he couldn’t be more embarrassed. He doesn’t really see anything sexy about what she did on stage.”

Complicating matters, those in Hemsworth’s inner circle have long been encouraging him to part ways with Cyrus, 20, because the increasingly risque star could damage his reputation.

“Liam is a serious actor with a growing career, whereas Miley has just turned into a joke.”

The couple was last seen publicly at the Los Angeles premiere of his movie Paranoia on Aug. 8.

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Miley Cyrus Endorsed Drug "Molly" Responsible For Two Deaths At New York Festival

The general public holds celebrities to such high standards that they'll ignore facts, basic principles and even general common sense for the status symbol of a celebrity endorsed product. Indeed, for all the naive and gullible Godless souls out there, whether it's Lady Gaga endorsing "gay marriage" or Miley Cyrus endorsing a lethal drug like "molly", it's always easier to be an ignorant follower than be a rebel and lead by example:

An old drug with a hot new name is being blamed for two deaths at a New York City dance festival this holiday weekend, forcing an early end to the event.

Molly, as it’s now known, is a form of Ecstasy and is being linked to a recent string of overdoses.

Promoters shut down New York’s multi-day Electric Zoo music festival after the deaths of two young people. Police said 20-year-old Olivia Rotondo and 23-year-old Jeffery Russ died after taking Molly. Four others are in critical condition.

Molly, short for molecule, is supposed to be the purest form of MDMA, the main ingredient in Ecstasy.

“It raises your body temperature, your heart rate goes up, your blood pressure goes up, and so it does make you more prone to heat stroke,” said ABC News crime analyst Brad Garrett.

Molly has been popping up more frequently in pop culture, especially in music. At a concert last year, Madonna was caught on tape asking the crowd, “How many of you have seen Molly?” although she later said she was referring to a friend’s song. Additionally, hit songs from artists, including Kanye West and Miley Cyrus, reference the drug.

Officials warn that despite the innocent sounding name, Molly is a dangerous drug.

“It could have other amphetamines in it, it could cause you to overdose, and that may well have been the case in these deaths in recent days,” Garrett said.

Some law enforcement officials also said Molly is so dangerous because the people who take it tend to be recreational users and so they are more naive about its dangers.

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Twerking Towards Sodom and Gomorrah

RedState.com:

Viewers of the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night were treated to a bizarre dance routine from former Disney child actress Miley Cyrus, which CBS News describes as “one performance that won’t be forgotten very quickly:”

Cyrus gave Robin Thicke a lap dance, paraded around with dancing bears, twerked her butt off and grabbed her crotch a few times. Not to mention the tongue. We saw a lot of that.

[Robin] Thicke’s mother, Gloria Loring, told OMG! Insider, “I don’t understand what Miley Cyrus is trying to do. I think she’s misbegotten in this attempt of hers. And I think it was not beneficial.” She added, “I didn’t get what her point was. It was so over the top as to almost be a parody of itself.

If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “twerking” is a dance move that dispenses with all the other subtleties of dance to deliver pelvic thrusts and butt wiggles.  If a cell phone set to “vibrate” magically became human and started dancing, it would twerk.  CBS left out the part where young Miley grabbed a foam finger from a member of the audience and began rubbing it against her crotch.  She wound up simulating a bit of anal penetration with Ms. Loring’s son, who was singing with her on stage.  And the “bears” in the act were dancers dressed like children’s teddy bears, adding a lovely touch of pedophilia chic to the proceedings.

My first exposure to Ms. Cyrus music came when I was putting together a photo slideshow for my 6-year-old niece’s birthday party, back in the “Hannah Montana” days.  That wasn’t so long ago.  I remember how much my little niece adored “Hannah Montana.”  She’s just now entering her preteen years – that tender moment in a young girl’s life when liberals think she should be able to get morning-after birth control pills over the counter, without her parents’ consent.  ”Hannah Montana” was a cute Disney fantasy about an ordinary girl who is secretly a millionaire pop star.  Is this how all the little girls who daydreamed about being Hannah Montana thought the dream would end?

I can tell Robin Thicke’s mom what Miley Cyrus was “trying to do.”  Most obviously, it was a bid for attention, another jolt of cheap electrical stimulus to the temples of a jaded, faded culture that expects nothing from young people, and is therefore shocked by nothing they do.  It’s not easy to generate controversy in a society whose only standard is that there should be no standards.  The only way for a barely-legal singer to get tongues wagging is to wag her tongue.  What else was she supposed to do, sing and dance modestly after endorsing abstinence, traditional marriage, and self-discipline?  That would have been plenty controversial, all right, but the people marketing her music wouldn’t like it, it’s hard to squeeze cash from rebellious teenagers with a message like that, and all the wrong people would have applauded.

Also, Ms. Loring, I would advise you not to underestimate the importance of the pedophile edge to Miley’s routine.  Sexualizing young people is an important mission of the Left.  They want little girls to jump right from teddy bears to Planned Parenthood.  That helps dissolve the bonds of family, which is a fading bastion of independence and self-reliance against collective power.  It’s important for the “Ozzie and Harriet” crowd to feel utterly marginalized, as unwelcome in 2013 as the pilgrims of Plymouth Rock.  We are supposed to accept that the world has forever moved on from those days.  Parents can’t control their kids – indeed, their influence is expressly unwelcome when it comes to sexual training, where the concept of “parental consent” has become as antique as the pocketwatch or bustle.  Liberal culture defines wanton sexuality and the rejection of family authority as “empowerment.”  It softens people up for hardcore government dependency when they’re forced to stop twerking and face the consequences.

Also, sexy children make a nice distraction for the older members of the Low Information Voter community, who crave transgression and worship youth, working as hard as possible not to grow up.

Miley Cyrus was on the bill with Lady Gaga, who is supposed to be the second coming of the aging Madonna, who has been busy transforming herself into a James Bond villain in her dotage.  Lady Gaga is said to have been “upstaged” by Miley’s re-enactment of a Japanese schoolgirl porn video, because all poor Gaga could think to do was dress up as a nun.  What kind of rebellion against authority is that?  Nuns are so pre-ObamaCare.  Religious conscience has given way before the power of the almighty State.  Nuns are just marking time until they’re legally compelled to perform abortions.

It might seem pathetic to watch these “edgy” artists flaunt their defiance against thoroughly vanquished traditions, but maybe it’s an encouraging sign.  Their marketing gurus apparently think there’s still a bit of milk in the old sacred cows.  The kids of 2013 can still savor a look of scandalized horror on Mom and Dad’s faces.  Someone apparently thinks “family values” haven’t quite been beaten to death.

Which is good, because “family values” remain our only hope for pulling out of the social and economic nose dive we find ourselves in.  The upper class retains the “secrets” of decorum, respect, and fidelity that everyone else has been tricked into forgetting.  Back when the Left set about turning the phrase “family values” into a post-modern joke, laughs were had at the expense of uptight squares who didn’t understand the difference between safeguarding important principles and having a bit of fun.  Well, the joke is on everyone else.

We never should have forgotten the potent connection between thought and expression, the importance of habit and ritual.  It is difficult to treasure what a saturation media culture treats like trash.  And it doesn’t help that the law of diminishing returns obliges the people who dug our cultural pit to dig more frantically as the hole grows deeper, madly searching for whatever flickers of shock value might still be left to uncover.

Societies die from thousands of cultural cuts.  Children are powerfully influenced by popular culture.  They yearn for guidance and inspiration from the adult world.  They receive the lesson transmitted by crap like the MTV Video Music Awards.  Kids a bit younger than Miley Cyrus remember what she used to be, and they see what she is now.  They see the road stretching between those points, and they follow it.  Unfortunately, they don’t understand that if you want to live a hedonistic anything-goes lifestyle, starting before you’re legally allowed to purchase alcohol, and avoid being destroyed by the consequences, it really helps to be a millionaire.

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MTV Promotes “Sexualization of Pre-teen Girls” with Disgusting Miley Cyrus Twerking Act

Mediaite.com:

Morning Joe opened this morning with the biggest news story of the day: Miley Cyrus’ “disturbing” twerking at the MTV Video Music Awards. Joe Scarborough and his male cohorts began by laughing about the spectacle before Mika Brzezinski jumped in with a more serious take. “I wouldn’t make a joke of it actually,” Brzezinski said. “I think that was really, really disturbing.”

She went on to describe how “that young lady, who is 20, is obviously deeply troubled, deeply disturbed, clearly has confidence issues, probably eating disorder and I don’t think anybody should have put her on stage. That was disgusting and embarrassing.” Scarborough started talking about his two older sons, with Brzezinski jumped back in with, “They don’t think that’s attractive, Miley. Nobody does actually.”

Before Scarborough could get another word in, she was off again. “That was not attractive. That was not fun. That was not funny. That was really, really bad for anybody who’s younger and impressionable and she’s really messed up.” She said MTV should be “ashamed of themselves” for putting it on the air. 

Harkening all the way back to Britney Spears’ 2001 VMA performance, Scarborough chalked the phenomenon up to the “Britney-fication of American culture.” He said the “real disgrace” is that “MTV knows the people watching these shows are tweeners” and they are promoting the “sexualization of pre-teen girls.”

“The whole thing was cringe worthy but I feel bad for her,” Brzezinski said, before trying to move on to another, more important story. “She is a mess. Someone needs to take care of her. Someone needs not to put her on stage and make a complete fool of herself.” When the show’s producer apparently threatened to show the clip for MTV again, Brzezinski vetoed it, saying, “I don’t want to see that ever again on this show.”

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Politiks As Usual: In The News 11/28/11

Bill Clinton Says Gingrich Surge A Result Of thoughtful Positions, Wins Key NH Nod

Colin Powell Blames Media and Tea Party for Divisive Tone in Washington

Why Not Pay Higher Taxes?

Black Friday Shoppers Set Records, Pepper Spray Suspect Surrenders

The Birthers Press On

Country Sick of Obama Job Act Acting Job

Miley Cyrus Calls Herself a 'Stoner' and a 'Pothead'

Barack Obama and Ed Schultz Make GQ's '25 Least Influential People Alive'

Andrew Sullivan Talks Republicans On CNN: 'I'm Still A Conservative, And They Are Not'

The Supercommittee Failed Because Democrats Insisted On $1 Trillion In New Taxes

Miley Cyrus Supports Gay Marriage, "Good Girls" Can Stop Supporting Her Now

WaPo.com:

What is the best way to make a political statement if you’re Miley Cyrus? A tattoo, of course!


The singer showed off a freshly inked equals sign on her ring finger via Twitter. The picture was accompanied by the message, “All LOVE is equal.” The heart tattoo on her pictured pinky is just one of the 18-year-old’s seven other tattoos.


When a fan disagreed with her stance on gay marriage, Cyrus proved she can be rather civil when discussing politics and religion. “Where does it say in the bible to judge others? Oh right. It doesn’t. GOD is the only judge honey,” she tweeted. Still, she supports the opposition’s right to speak out: “Everyone is entitled 2 opinions!”


This isn’t the first time the former Disney star has used 140 characters for political purposes. She took a stand against Urban Outfitters co-founder Rick Hayne’s political donations to GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who is staunchly against same-sex marriage.

Of course, as a believer in self-responsibility I'm never with holding any kind of celebrity on a pedestal. But ever since she first found fame playing "Hannah Montana" on Disney awhile back, thousands of young women around the world have looked up to Miley Cyrus as a role model and then some, But once again, like many before (and after) her she's proves to be a huge disappointment.

Whether it's wearing oversexualized outfits at award shows, "almost kissing" another girl or taking photo shoots in underwear for magazines, Cyrus continues to walk down the same road that many young starlets have walked before her, getting caught up in promoting sex before talent while becoming a spokesman for the morally-bankrupt liberal, Hollywood elite.

So of course, she's now out there supporting "gay marriage", don't be surprised if she's doing a lesbian liplock on screen soon or gets caught up in some other sex scandal down the line--it's the direction all these young actresses today go to prove how "tolerant" and "open-minded" they are. In other words, Hollywood actresses with class like Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon are on the verge becoming extinct, and "good girls" around the world need to not only pay heed, but turn off the TV set altogether and find their role models elsewhere.

By the way Miley, since you're now an "expert" on love and "all love is equal", shouldn't you be out there staunchly supporting polygamists too?

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