You’re a 16-year-old boy with devilish good looks and a penchant for goofing off. Your YouTube handle is JSKCranks, and you like to film yourself making prank calls. In one call you’re a mean Russian messing with the pizza guy. ("Do you have my money for the marijuana and cocaine I sold you? Cause I’ll cut you, bitch!") Perhaps you get bored with prank calls. So you decide to take your antics on the road, maybe score some cash in the process. You go on the "adult services" section of Craigslist, as you’ll later tell the police, and connect with “Smotherboy.” He’s a 47-year-old ABC radio journalist who’s willing to pay you $60 to come over and smother him — an ambiguous sexual fetish that involves asphyxiation and ... and then what?
At the man’s Carroll Gardens apartment, you’ll later claim, he gives you beer and a white substance that looks like coke.
Then, while bound in duct tape, you later say, Smotherboy pulls a knife. You grab it away and stab him some 50 times. Afterward, you search for money in Smotherboy’s pants, rifle through his lunchbox collection, and then wash yourself in the tub before putting on Smotherboy’s clothes and leaving. You take the G train back to Queens. But the conductor stops the subway when he sees your finger bleeding badly. You go to the hospital, are later arrested, charged with murder in the second degree, and now face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.
You didn’t know New York law permits 16-year-olds to be tried as adults. But you think your chances of getting off are decent. Given the choice between feeling outraged over a brutal killing or disgusted by deviance, jurors might see the case in your lawyer’s terms: a child conscripted by a sexual predator to carry out ungodly acts.
And then the prosecutor walks in.
You were expecting someone mean or severe-looking. But she seems pretty nice: tall, blonde, athletic and lithe in that Icelandic way. The brown eyes, you notice, are slightly misty, and the head is cocked a little to one side as if empathy is hardwired into her brain. In the prosecutor’s demeanor there is something eminently trustworthy. She’s seven months pregnant and just beginning to show.
You look at your own lawyer, dressed in a loud pinstripe suit. What’s he thinking? Probably that in 36 homicide trials, this particular blonde has never had an acquittal.
Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi is the prosecutor in the high-profile murder trial of John Katehis, charged with killing George Weber, a freelance journalist for ABC News Radio. The trial began last week, with pretrial hearings and jury selection; opening statements are today.
"Only three kinds of prosecutors have her record," says Ken Taub, who heads the homicide unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office where Nicolazzi works as a homicide bureau chief. "People who exaggerate their records, people who pick and choose their cases, and people like Anna-Sigga, who prepare everything and anticipate everything. Her style is totally professional, no phony flash or showmanship."
In one respect, she’s the embodiment of an archetype used in crime dramas — the attractive trial lawyer who lives and breathes homicides. Her personal history includes an older cousin who was raped and murdered, though she says that didn’t influence her career choice.
"Anna-Sigga has no ego," says Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney who taught Nicolazzi at Brooklyn Law School. "She comes across as a person you can believe in. And of course her looks don’t hurt, either." Could she run for office? "Absolutely, as long as she doesn’t run against me. I don’t want to deal with her in a race."
I first encountered Nicolazzi’s name in 2006 when I was a litigation associate reading about the trial of Troy Hendrix and Kayson Pearson, the men convicted in the bafflingly horrific torture, murder, and posthumous rape of Romona Moore, a 21-year-old student at Hunter College. The case brought new meaning to courtroom theatrics when, on the first day of trial, Hendrix and Pearson pulled out improvised knives, stabbed one of their own lawyers in the face, and then tried to snatch a court officer’s gun before their uprising was put down. When the trial resumed, the Times reported that Nicolazzi, having declined the judge’s offer to replace her, "sat alone at the prosecution table taking notes with an exaggerated overhand grip."
"After that they called me ‘lobster-claw’ around the office," says Nicolazzi, 40, who grew up on Long Island and has lived in Brooklyn since law school. "That episode stuck with me," she continued. "Now I’m more concerned with where the court officers are and where the defendants are, especially certain defendants."
Katehis, now 18, reportedly had a MySpace page advertising his interests in anarchy, sadomasochism, drinking, roof-hopping, hanging off trains, and "extreme" violence. In a pretrial hearing, Nicolazzi requested that Katehis remove his sneakers because they had satanic images drawn on them.
In court last Wednesday, the defense suffered an early setback when a Brooklyn judge ruled that a post-arrest, videotaped statement by Katehis — in which he tells authorities about meeting Weber on Craigslist, drinking beer and snorting cocaine that Weber had given him, and then stabbing him — could be presented to the jury. And according to sources familiar with the case, at least two aspects of Katehis’s story — that Weber posted the Craigslist ad; and that Weber gave Katehis cocaine, which Katehis claims caused him to react so violently — will be disputed at trial.
So if Katehis, rather than Weber, posted the ad, then who lured whom?
It doesn’t matter, says Jeff Schwartz, Katehis’s lawyer. "You can’t say anything was consensual because John was underage. He can’t consent. If John had been a 16-year-old girl he probably would never have even been arrested." As for Katehis’s claim that Weber gave him beer and drugs, Schwartz says tests taken at the hospital showed alcohol present in Katehis’s blood but not cocaine.
If Katehis has anything on his side, it might be public opinion. Coincidentally, in September, Craigslist closed the "adult services" section of its site — worth a reported $45 million per year in revenue — when negative publicity reached critical mass. Some believe Craigslist must bear a degree of responsibility for criminality facilitated by its site.
For Nicolazzi it all comes down to presenting the facts as they are. "If you don’t try to sugarcoat what actually happened, then you can set the morals aside and focus on the crime," she says. "The encounter was consensual. John Katehis made a decision to kill George Weber, and it was incredibly vicious. You may think Weber’s behavior was reprehensible, but he did nothing criminal. No sexual activity occurred. He didn’t deserve to die."
If establishment comedian Jon Stewart didn’t have the professional dignity to express embarrassment after the President of the United States personally endorsed his upcoming October 30th, Mock-The-People left-wing political rally, no one should be surprised over Stewart’s willingness to unashamedly accept all the Big Media astro-turf that’s already been thrown his way. Obviously the King’s favorite Court Jester has a raging case of Beck-Envy and now all the King’s Media Toadies and all the King’s Corporate Toadies are going to try and put Jon Stewart’s ego back together again: “Doesn’t America know I mock Glenn Beck!”
Free rides to the Jon Stewart rally!
The problem is that Stewart’s already cheating and intentionally gaming the numbers. His wealthy corporate backers and zillionaire media friends are currently pulling out all the stops to lay out a big red green carpet of astro-turf on his behalf – something this strange alliance of Unions and Big Media has had to do to show that Glenn Beck! ever since Beck-A-Palooza shocked everyone by drawing hundreds of thousands of people from every corner of America.
Think about it: One conservative holds one successful rally and now, by my count, that success has so flustered the Left that just a few weeks later they will have organized no less than four angry counter-rallies:
- BitterFest
- Bitter-LitterFest
- SmugFest
- MiniMeSmugFest
But it’s all as phony as Jon Stewart’s assurances he has no political agenda.
October 2nd’s Bitter-Litter Fest, aka One Nation Rally, was nothing more than an astro-turfed Unionstock with every radical left-wing organization in America spending a ton of money to bus in supporters in the desperate hope of avoiding an embarrassing crowd shot (Mission Not-Accomplished):
Progressives and radicals descended on Washington, DC Saturday demanding more government spending as the way to fix societal ills. Groups including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, NAACP, Democratic Socialists of America, Organizing for America, Communist Party USA, American Federation of Teachers, Code Pink and National Education Association linked arms in a call for voters to keep Democrats in power. …
After milling in the crowd all day, I would estimate 80%-90% of attendees wore union-affiliated t-shirts. Some others wore ‘I Need a Job’ shirts. We talked to people who were bussed and actually flow in – the Tides Foundation spent a lot of money.
And now we discover that no less than media giant Viacom, through their MTV network, is muscling their employees to give up a Saturday in exchange for a grueling 11-hour round-trip bus ride in order to pack the Stewart crowd with corporate ringers and cheer on The Smug One as he expresses his state-approved contempt for everyday Americans (why else name his counter-rally “Restoring Sanity?”).
Also, as we reported earlier, there’s Arianna Huffington, who’s spending a cool quarter of a million dollars to bus in her own astro-turf, all in the hopes of making successful yet another glaring example of the Left’s open contempt for we everyday bitter-clingers.
Look at how small and mean and petty these people are. We can’t even gather peaceably in large numbers and in a non-partisan way without them feeling so threatened, that beyond all reason, they’re compelled to boorishly bumble in afterwards to puff themselves up with mockery and to make sure they get the last word in. If God were to suddenly strike these fools with the gift of self-awareness, can you imagine how embarrassed they would be over how transparently desperate they are?
All this time, energy and money wasted – all this panicked thumb-on-the-scale organizing just to balm the open wounds of Beck-Envy.
I wonder, though…. Might this have been Beck’s devious, Rove-inspired, Cheney-approved Machiavellian plan the whole time? Does he understand these people so well that he knew a successful rally on his part would so enrage the elite left that they wouldn’t be able to control themselves from launching a whole series of resource-wasting counter-rallies thisclose to a crucial election?
Beck, you magnificent bastard.
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You’re a 16-year-old boy with devilish good looks and a penchant for goofing off. Your YouTube handle is JSKCranks, and you like to film yourself making prank calls. In one call you’re a mean Russian messing with the pizza guy. ("Do you have my money for the marijuana and cocaine I sold you? Cause I’ll cut you, bitch!") Perhaps you get bored with prank calls. So you decide to take your antics on the road, maybe score some cash in the process. You go on the "adult services" section of Craigslist, as you’ll later tell the police, and connect with “Smotherboy.” He’s a 47-year-old ABC radio journalist who’s willing to pay you $60 to come over and smother him — an ambiguous sexual fetish that involves asphyxiation and ... and then what?
At the man’s Carroll Gardens apartment, you’ll later claim, he gives you beer and a white substance that looks like coke.
Then, while bound in duct tape, you later say, Smotherboy pulls a knife. You grab it away and stab him some 50 times. Afterward, you search for money in Smotherboy’s pants, rifle through his lunchbox collection, and then wash yourself in the tub before putting on Smotherboy’s clothes and leaving. You take the G train back to Queens. But the conductor stops the subway when he sees your finger bleeding badly. You go to the hospital, are later arrested, charged with murder in the second degree, and now face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.
You didn’t know New York law permits 16-year-olds to be tried as adults. But you think your chances of getting off are decent. Given the choice between feeling outraged over a brutal killing or disgusted by deviance, jurors might see the case in your lawyer’s terms: a child conscripted by a sexual predator to carry out ungodly acts.
And then the prosecutor walks in.
You were expecting someone mean or severe-looking. But she seems pretty nice: tall, blonde, athletic and lithe in that Icelandic way. The brown eyes, you notice, are slightly misty, and the head is cocked a little to one side as if empathy is hardwired into her brain. In the prosecutor’s demeanor there is something eminently trustworthy. She’s seven months pregnant and just beginning to show.
You look at your own lawyer, dressed in a loud pinstripe suit. What’s he thinking? Probably that in 36 homicide trials, this particular blonde has never had an acquittal.
Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi is the prosecutor in the high-profile murder trial of John Katehis, charged with killing George Weber, a freelance journalist for ABC News Radio. The trial began last week, with pretrial hearings and jury selection; opening statements are today.
"Only three kinds of prosecutors have her record," says Ken Taub, who heads the homicide unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office where Nicolazzi works as a homicide bureau chief. "People who exaggerate their records, people who pick and choose their cases, and people like Anna-Sigga, who prepare everything and anticipate everything. Her style is totally professional, no phony flash or showmanship."
In one respect, she’s the embodiment of an archetype used in crime dramas — the attractive trial lawyer who lives and breathes homicides. Her personal history includes an older cousin who was raped and murdered, though she says that didn’t influence her career choice.
"Anna-Sigga has no ego," says Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney who taught Nicolazzi at Brooklyn Law School. "She comes across as a person you can believe in. And of course her looks don’t hurt, either." Could she run for office? "Absolutely, as long as she doesn’t run against me. I don’t want to deal with her in a race."
I first encountered Nicolazzi’s name in 2006 when I was a litigation associate reading about the trial of Troy Hendrix and Kayson Pearson, the men convicted in the bafflingly horrific torture, murder, and posthumous rape of Romona Moore, a 21-year-old student at Hunter College. The case brought new meaning to courtroom theatrics when, on the first day of trial, Hendrix and Pearson pulled out improvised knives, stabbed one of their own lawyers in the face, and then tried to snatch a court officer’s gun before their uprising was put down. When the trial resumed, the Times reported that Nicolazzi, having declined the judge’s offer to replace her, "sat alone at the prosecution table taking notes with an exaggerated overhand grip."
"After that they called me ‘lobster-claw’ around the office," says Nicolazzi, 40, who grew up on Long Island and has lived in Brooklyn since law school. "That episode stuck with me," she continued. "Now I’m more concerned with where the court officers are and where the defendants are, especially certain defendants."
Katehis, now 18, reportedly had a MySpace page advertising his interests in anarchy, sadomasochism, drinking, roof-hopping, hanging off trains, and "extreme" violence. In a pretrial hearing, Nicolazzi requested that Katehis remove his sneakers because they had satanic images drawn on them.
In court last Wednesday, the defense suffered an early setback when a Brooklyn judge ruled that a post-arrest, videotaped statement by Katehis — in which he tells authorities about meeting Weber on Craigslist, drinking beer and snorting cocaine that Weber had given him, and then stabbing him — could be presented to the jury. And according to sources familiar with the case, at least two aspects of Katehis’s story — that Weber posted the Craigslist ad; and that Weber gave Katehis cocaine, which Katehis claims caused him to react so violently — will be disputed at trial.
So if Katehis, rather than Weber, posted the ad, then who lured whom?
It doesn’t matter, says Jeff Schwartz, Katehis’s lawyer. "You can’t say anything was consensual because John was underage. He can’t consent. If John had been a 16-year-old girl he probably would never have even been arrested." As for Katehis’s claim that Weber gave him beer and drugs, Schwartz says tests taken at the hospital showed alcohol present in Katehis’s blood but not cocaine.
If Katehis has anything on his side, it might be public opinion. Coincidentally, in September, Craigslist closed the "adult services" section of its site — worth a reported $45 million per year in revenue — when negative publicity reached critical mass. Some believe Craigslist must bear a degree of responsibility for criminality facilitated by its site.
For Nicolazzi it all comes down to presenting the facts as they are. "If you don’t try to sugarcoat what actually happened, then you can set the morals aside and focus on the crime," she says. "The encounter was consensual. John Katehis made a decision to kill George Weber, and it was incredibly vicious. You may think Weber’s behavior was reprehensible, but he did nothing criminal. No sexual activity occurred. He didn’t deserve to die."
If establishment comedian Jon Stewart didn’t have the professional dignity to express embarrassment after the President of the United States personally endorsed his upcoming October 30th, Mock-The-People left-wing political rally, no one should be surprised over Stewart’s willingness to unashamedly accept all the Big Media astro-turf that’s already been thrown his way. Obviously the King’s favorite Court Jester has a raging case of Beck-Envy and now all the King’s Media Toadies and all the King’s Corporate Toadies are going to try and put Jon Stewart’s ego back together again: “Doesn’t America know I mock Glenn Beck!”
Free rides to the Jon Stewart rally!
The problem is that Stewart’s already cheating and intentionally gaming the numbers. His wealthy corporate backers and zillionaire media friends are currently pulling out all the stops to lay out a big red green carpet of astro-turf on his behalf – something this strange alliance of Unions and Big Media has had to do to show that Glenn Beck! ever since Beck-A-Palooza shocked everyone by drawing hundreds of thousands of people from every corner of America.
Think about it: One conservative holds one successful rally and now, by my count, that success has so flustered the Left that just a few weeks later they will have organized no less than four angry counter-rallies:
- BitterFest
- Bitter-LitterFest
- SmugFest
- MiniMeSmugFest
But it’s all as phony as Jon Stewart’s assurances he has no political agenda.
October 2nd’s Bitter-Litter Fest, aka One Nation Rally, was nothing more than an astro-turfed Unionstock with every radical left-wing organization in America spending a ton of money to bus in supporters in the desperate hope of avoiding an embarrassing crowd shot (Mission Not-Accomplished):
Progressives and radicals descended on Washington, DC Saturday demanding more government spending as the way to fix societal ills. Groups including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, NAACP, Democratic Socialists of America, Organizing for America, Communist Party USA, American Federation of Teachers, Code Pink and National Education Association linked arms in a call for voters to keep Democrats in power. …
After milling in the crowd all day, I would estimate 80%-90% of attendees wore union-affiliated t-shirts. Some others wore ‘I Need a Job’ shirts. We talked to people who were bussed and actually flow in – the Tides Foundation spent a lot of money.
And now we discover that no less than media giant Viacom, through their MTV network, is muscling their employees to give up a Saturday in exchange for a grueling 11-hour round-trip bus ride in order to pack the Stewart crowd with corporate ringers and cheer on The Smug One as he expresses his state-approved contempt for everyday Americans (why else name his counter-rally “Restoring Sanity?”).
Also, as we reported earlier, there’s Arianna Huffington, who’s spending a cool quarter of a million dollars to bus in her own astro-turf, all in the hopes of making successful yet another glaring example of the Left’s open contempt for we everyday bitter-clingers.
Look at how small and mean and petty these people are. We can’t even gather peaceably in large numbers and in a non-partisan way without them feeling so threatened, that beyond all reason, they’re compelled to boorishly bumble in afterwards to puff themselves up with mockery and to make sure they get the last word in. If God were to suddenly strike these fools with the gift of self-awareness, can you imagine how embarrassed they would be over how transparently desperate they are?
All this time, energy and money wasted – all this panicked thumb-on-the-scale organizing just to balm the open wounds of Beck-Envy.
I wonder, though…. Might this have been Beck’s devious, Rove-inspired, Cheney-approved Machiavellian plan the whole time? Does he understand these people so well that he knew a successful rally on his part would so enrage the elite left that they wouldn’t be able to control themselves from launching a whole series of resource-wasting counter-rallies thisclose to a crucial election?
Beck, you magnificent bastard.
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You’re a 16-year-old boy with devilish good looks and a penchant for goofing off. Your YouTube handle is JSKCranks, and you like to film yourself making prank calls. In one call you’re a mean Russian messing with the pizza guy. ("Do you have my money for the marijuana and cocaine I sold you? Cause I’ll cut you, bitch!") Perhaps you get bored with prank calls. So you decide to take your antics on the road, maybe score some cash in the process. You go on the "adult services" section of Craigslist, as you’ll later tell the police, and connect with “Smotherboy.” He’s a 47-year-old ABC radio journalist who’s willing to pay you $60 to come over and smother him — an ambiguous sexual fetish that involves asphyxiation and ... and then what?
At the man’s Carroll Gardens apartment, you’ll later claim, he gives you beer and a white substance that looks like coke.
Then, while bound in duct tape, you later say, Smotherboy pulls a knife. You grab it away and stab him some 50 times. Afterward, you search for money in Smotherboy’s pants, rifle through his lunchbox collection, and then wash yourself in the tub before putting on Smotherboy’s clothes and leaving. You take the G train back to Queens. But the conductor stops the subway when he sees your finger bleeding badly. You go to the hospital, are later arrested, charged with murder in the second degree, and now face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.
You didn’t know New York law permits 16-year-olds to be tried as adults. But you think your chances of getting off are decent. Given the choice between feeling outraged over a brutal killing or disgusted by deviance, jurors might see the case in your lawyer’s terms: a child conscripted by a sexual predator to carry out ungodly acts.
And then the prosecutor walks in.
You were expecting someone mean or severe-looking. But she seems pretty nice: tall, blonde, athletic and lithe in that Icelandic way. The brown eyes, you notice, are slightly misty, and the head is cocked a little to one side as if empathy is hardwired into her brain. In the prosecutor’s demeanor there is something eminently trustworthy. She’s seven months pregnant and just beginning to show.
You look at your own lawyer, dressed in a loud pinstripe suit. What’s he thinking? Probably that in 36 homicide trials, this particular blonde has never had an acquittal.
Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi is the prosecutor in the high-profile murder trial of John Katehis, charged with killing George Weber, a freelance journalist for ABC News Radio. The trial began last week, with pretrial hearings and jury selection; opening statements are today.
"Only three kinds of prosecutors have her record," says Ken Taub, who heads the homicide unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office where Nicolazzi works as a homicide bureau chief. "People who exaggerate their records, people who pick and choose their cases, and people like Anna-Sigga, who prepare everything and anticipate everything. Her style is totally professional, no phony flash or showmanship."
In one respect, she’s the embodiment of an archetype used in crime dramas — the attractive trial lawyer who lives and breathes homicides. Her personal history includes an older cousin who was raped and murdered, though she says that didn’t influence her career choice.
"Anna-Sigga has no ego," says Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney who taught Nicolazzi at Brooklyn Law School. "She comes across as a person you can believe in. And of course her looks don’t hurt, either." Could she run for office? "Absolutely, as long as she doesn’t run against me. I don’t want to deal with her in a race."
I first encountered Nicolazzi’s name in 2006 when I was a litigation associate reading about the trial of Troy Hendrix and Kayson Pearson, the men convicted in the bafflingly horrific torture, murder, and posthumous rape of Romona Moore, a 21-year-old student at Hunter College. The case brought new meaning to courtroom theatrics when, on the first day of trial, Hendrix and Pearson pulled out improvised knives, stabbed one of their own lawyers in the face, and then tried to snatch a court officer’s gun before their uprising was put down. When the trial resumed, the Times reported that Nicolazzi, having declined the judge’s offer to replace her, "sat alone at the prosecution table taking notes with an exaggerated overhand grip."
"After that they called me ‘lobster-claw’ around the office," says Nicolazzi, 40, who grew up on Long Island and has lived in Brooklyn since law school. "That episode stuck with me," she continued. "Now I’m more concerned with where the court officers are and where the defendants are, especially certain defendants."
Katehis, now 18, reportedly had a MySpace page advertising his interests in anarchy, sadomasochism, drinking, roof-hopping, hanging off trains, and "extreme" violence. In a pretrial hearing, Nicolazzi requested that Katehis remove his sneakers because they had satanic images drawn on them.
In court last Wednesday, the defense suffered an early setback when a Brooklyn judge ruled that a post-arrest, videotaped statement by Katehis — in which he tells authorities about meeting Weber on Craigslist, drinking beer and snorting cocaine that Weber had given him, and then stabbing him — could be presented to the jury. And according to sources familiar with the case, at least two aspects of Katehis’s story — that Weber posted the Craigslist ad; and that Weber gave Katehis cocaine, which Katehis claims caused him to react so violently — will be disputed at trial.
So if Katehis, rather than Weber, posted the ad, then who lured whom?
It doesn’t matter, says Jeff Schwartz, Katehis’s lawyer. "You can’t say anything was consensual because John was underage. He can’t consent. If John had been a 16-year-old girl he probably would never have even been arrested." As for Katehis’s claim that Weber gave him beer and drugs, Schwartz says tests taken at the hospital showed alcohol present in Katehis’s blood but not cocaine.
If Katehis has anything on his side, it might be public opinion. Coincidentally, in September, Craigslist closed the "adult services" section of its site — worth a reported $45 million per year in revenue — when negative publicity reached critical mass. Some believe Craigslist must bear a degree of responsibility for criminality facilitated by its site.
For Nicolazzi it all comes down to presenting the facts as they are. "If you don’t try to sugarcoat what actually happened, then you can set the morals aside and focus on the crime," she says. "The encounter was consensual. John Katehis made a decision to kill George Weber, and it was incredibly vicious. You may think Weber’s behavior was reprehensible, but he did nothing criminal. No sexual activity occurred. He didn’t deserve to die."
If establishment comedian Jon Stewart didn’t have the professional dignity to express embarrassment after the President of the United States personally endorsed his upcoming October 30th, Mock-The-People left-wing political rally, no one should be surprised over Stewart’s willingness to unashamedly accept all the Big Media astro-turf that’s already been thrown his way. Obviously the King’s favorite Court Jester has a raging case of Beck-Envy and now all the King’s Media Toadies and all the King’s Corporate Toadies are going to try and put Jon Stewart’s ego back together again: “Doesn’t America know I mock Glenn Beck!”
Free rides to the Jon Stewart rally!
The problem is that Stewart’s already cheating and intentionally gaming the numbers. His wealthy corporate backers and zillionaire media friends are currently pulling out all the stops to lay out a big red green carpet of astro-turf on his behalf – something this strange alliance of Unions and Big Media has had to do to show that Glenn Beck! ever since Beck-A-Palooza shocked everyone by drawing hundreds of thousands of people from every corner of America.
Think about it: One conservative holds one successful rally and now, by my count, that success has so flustered the Left that just a few weeks later they will have organized no less than four angry counter-rallies:
- BitterFest
- Bitter-LitterFest
- SmugFest
- MiniMeSmugFest
But it’s all as phony as Jon Stewart’s assurances he has no political agenda.
October 2nd’s Bitter-Litter Fest, aka One Nation Rally, was nothing more than an astro-turfed Unionstock with every radical left-wing organization in America spending a ton of money to bus in supporters in the desperate hope of avoiding an embarrassing crowd shot (Mission Not-Accomplished):
Progressives and radicals descended on Washington, DC Saturday demanding more government spending as the way to fix societal ills. Groups including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, NAACP, Democratic Socialists of America, Organizing for America, Communist Party USA, American Federation of Teachers, Code Pink and National Education Association linked arms in a call for voters to keep Democrats in power. …
After milling in the crowd all day, I would estimate 80%-90% of attendees wore union-affiliated t-shirts. Some others wore ‘I Need a Job’ shirts. We talked to people who were bussed and actually flow in – the Tides Foundation spent a lot of money.
And now we discover that no less than media giant Viacom, through their MTV network, is muscling their employees to give up a Saturday in exchange for a grueling 11-hour round-trip bus ride in order to pack the Stewart crowd with corporate ringers and cheer on The Smug One as he expresses his state-approved contempt for everyday Americans (why else name his counter-rally “Restoring Sanity?”).
Also, as we reported earlier, there’s Arianna Huffington, who’s spending a cool quarter of a million dollars to bus in her own astro-turf, all in the hopes of making successful yet another glaring example of the Left’s open contempt for we everyday bitter-clingers.
Look at how small and mean and petty these people are. We can’t even gather peaceably in large numbers and in a non-partisan way without them feeling so threatened, that beyond all reason, they’re compelled to boorishly bumble in afterwards to puff themselves up with mockery and to make sure they get the last word in. If God were to suddenly strike these fools with the gift of self-awareness, can you imagine how embarrassed they would be over how transparently desperate they are?
All this time, energy and money wasted – all this panicked thumb-on-the-scale organizing just to balm the open wounds of Beck-Envy.
I wonder, though…. Might this have been Beck’s devious, Rove-inspired, Cheney-approved Machiavellian plan the whole time? Does he understand these people so well that he knew a successful rally on his part would so enrage the elite left that they wouldn’t be able to control themselves from launching a whole series of resource-wasting counter-rallies thisclose to a crucial election?
Beck, you magnificent bastard.
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I started looking for ways to make money online a few years ago. I thought it would be a simple thing to get online and find work. That's how naive i was when you consider I had no one to guide me and really had no idea where to look. I am sure you are familiar with the assortment of scams I ran into when I did a search on "making money online".
Well, I'm still not rich, but I have a few scattered things that I do until I get lazy and stop doing "my thing". Nothing that I do has ever cost me anything and I have made a tidy little sum sitting in this chair. Some of the things I do I found by mistake and some things I found by people like me who decided to write about it. I say thank you to them because there are many writers who's work has helped me along my way!
So, here are some things you can do to make money online starting today.
Lots of companies take surveys to enhance their marketability. I personally hate doing surveys, so I don't do them. A lot of them pay by points or entries into contests. But, don't discount this method. There are tons of people just like me who hate doing surveys. That means there are plenty of chances for other people to win those contests because of the limited entries. I admit, I have taken some surveys that were kinda fun. Actually, my seven year old son has even taken some surveys and he thought that was kinda cool. They were totally legit by the way, they actually asked for HIS opinion because they were child based products.
Another way to make money online is by writing articles. I love to write, so this is by far my favorite way to make money online. This can be done in many ways. You can get paid to blog. You can join a site like the one I am writing this article on (Associated Content). The thing I love about the article writing on sites like these is that I am not trying to sell anything. I just get to write about whatever I want. Being a single mom that works at home, I like to share my information with other struggling parents. It makes me feel good and puts money in my pocket.
You can't beat that! Associated Content is my favorite site to write for because the pay really is not bad and they let me choose what i want to write about. I know that some other sites put in requests for articles on specific topics. While this site does put in requests for that, you are not limited to write for those requests. Now seriously, where else can you get paid just to share information that interests you?
You can also ghostwrite. Personally, this is not something I enjoy, but I do from time to time when my creative juices are limited and I can't think of things for me to write about.
Make a site and use Adsense on your site. It's pretty easy and doens't cost anything.
Join an affiliate program. This can be pretty lucrative if you really work on it. I love getting emails saying "You have just made (however much." and I didn't even do anything!
I'll be writing more articles that detail specific areas to work in. as of right now, I have some places listed on my site that I work through. Feel free to take a look and check them out. I hope you enjoy doing some of this work as much as I do. And no, my site is not a sales site,it's free and shares lots of handy information. So check back soon for more detailed articles and take a look at my site listed in the resource box! Good Luck!
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