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Accurate Lies Continue

The lamestream media told you:

"Would Governor Leave Office For Job With Obama?" In a bylined article, Mathew Benson writes, "Gov. Janet Napolitano isn't thinking about her chances at a spot on the Democratic presidential ticket, she assures."

"She isn't focused on scenarios under which she'd land a choice Cabinet spot in a Barack Obama administration... But... politicos are buzzing about the likelihood Napolitano will receive an offer she won't want to refuse, enticing her to abandon the final two years of her term."

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Abandoning any vestige of ethics and confirming fears of news consumers that the media will publish without question even the most outlandish nonsense as long as they quote it correctly, Gannett's number two newspaper, The Arizona Republic, featured obvious, self-evident silliness on page one in its June 9 issue.

"The deceptive attribution 'she assures' fools no one," says one anonymous news-media observer, "except perhaps the lapdog reporter promoting the obvious lie."

Even dull news readers recognize that a political animal like a governor, who was an early supporter of Obama, has given thought to the possibilities if the man is elected, especially with "politicos" all speculating on what post she might be offered.

"It's like saying, 'Don't think of a zebra' and then believing a zebra doesn't come to mind. No, it's worse than that," the anonymous observer assures.

An ethical reporter might have said, "The governor doesn't want to discuss the chance that she might get a tempting offer from Obama, or what offers they may have already discussed when she agreed to give him her endorsement." Instead he chose intelligence-insulting balderdash, but the public is getting used to such bald affronts from lamestream reporters and their complicit editors.

Tags: Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano

Self Defense Denied

The lamestream media told you:

"Campus-gun bill dies in Senate"

"A bill that would allow some students, professors and administrators to carry guns on Arizona's college campuses is dead -- at least for this year," writes Scott Wong, on page one on the local "news" section in Gannett's number two paper, The Arizona Republic.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Self Defense Bill Killed by Senate

A bill that would ensure the civil rights of FBI-certified, trained, permitted, specially taxed and DPS-monitored citizens to possess sidearms for self-defense when on college campuses was denied a vote by the state senate.

The bill's sponsor, Sen. Karen Johnson, said she thought many lawmakers, facing re-election, didn't want to take a position on such a controversial issue, and brought pressure to have the bill killed.

With news coverage that perpetually casts self-defense, personal-safety and civil-rights-protection bills as students-with-guns laws, this comes as little surprise.

The issue was exposed in the paper itself, in a letter I wrote to them, which some people said was a miracle to see in print.

Tags: Arizona Republic, Scott Wong, Senator Karen Johnson

Government Declares Summer

The lamestream media told you:

Leslie Wanek of the National Weather Service said high temperatures are coming as the first 100 degree day in Phoenix is expected shortly. Official warnings on the dangers of hot days have been issued to all news outlets, with advice to drink plenty of water, stay indoors during the hottest parts of the day, use sunscreen, and wear hats and appropriate clothing. Wanek's initial heat announcement ran on page one.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

In yet another infuriating sign that "news" media has become a lapdog of government and hopelessly reliant on "officials" for virtually all its information, even weather and heat advisories are now dependent on government edict. No one at the local papers apparently had sufficient authority to independently say summers in the desert get hot, and proper caution is wise when exposed to hot desert.

It was unclear at press time whether schools have taught students that summers in the desert are hot, and people outdoors in desert heat need to drink water or wear "loose fitting clothing." According to unsubstantiated rumors, people used to know these things without government or school aid.

By issuing advisories on weather conditions, the government wisely (from their point of view) increases peoples' reliance on the state for everything from food and drink to hot summer days. "Reporters" are complicit in helping to reduce individual self reliance in the clever scheme. Major "news" organizations employ meterologists, formerly known as weathermen, but they were at a government climate conference and could not be reached for comment.

Tags: National Weather Service, Phoenix, weather

Self Deportation Working

The lamestream media told you:

Xenophobic anti-immigration hardliners are proposing unworkable laws that target poor working people who just want to get ahead. The proposals, which won’t work, rely on racial profiling and can’t be fairly enforced.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Patriotic citizens resisting tidal waves of illegal immigration (called xenophobic anti-immigration hardliners by the “news” media) are celebrating the successes of recently enacted laws, especially in Arizona, where more people sneak into the country than anywhere else.

Top federal officials are calling the Arizona deportation policy “a model” and want other states to follow. Under this program, jailed non-violent illegal immigrants are released from prison and immediately deported. The state has sent 1,443 such prisoners to ICE, saving $18.6 million since 2005. (http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0415deport0414.html)

In other news, five tax-funded Arizona schools are set for closing for lack of students. Officials blame a new state law that severely punishes businesses that hire illegal aliens, forcing the illegals to flee. More than 1,000 students did not re-enroll in January, when the new law took effect.

Since schools get money for every pupil attending, they claim this has “cost” them millions. Actually, this saves taxpaying citizens millions, a subtle difference missed by the “news” media for unknown reasons.

Spokesmen for the illegals say this is not entirely unexpected, as the illegals are moving to states without laws designed to block them. Arizona wishes these sanctuary locations well.

State representative Russell Pearce, a leading border-protection advocate characterized as an immigration hardliner in “news” reports, says “self deportation” works, comparing it to an amusement park. “Just stop the free rides and turn off the lights and everyone leaves.”

Tags: Russell Pearce

Decades of Trial

The lamestream media told you:

"Jury starts deliberating today in 1984 Tempe murder case." Robert Ortloff is accused of bludgeoning and strangling the woman before burning the body. The case rests heavily on testimony of a "famous jailhouse snitch," a former Atlanta prosecutor.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial..."

Tags: Robert Ortloff

Whether The Weather

The lamestream media told you:

"In what could be described as a monsoon dew-over, the National Weather Service will abandon its decades-old system of using dew points to mark the onset of summer thunderstorms and simply set a date," writes Shaun McKinnon, on the lead page-one story for the Arizona Republic, entitled, "This Year We'll Know." The title refers to the monsoon starting date, which changes each year depending on conditions.

"We want to get the focus away from how we determine when it starts, and put the focus on awareness (of) our most violent weather," said Tony Haffer, the federal agent in charge. By setting dates, public safety agencies can better prepare people for the risks of summer thunderstorms.

In the past ten years, measurements showed the season started between June 17 and July 19. The official date is now June 15.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Abandoning scientific principles altogether, climatologists in Arizona have decided to stop measuring conditions and simply declare a date on which the annual desert monsoon conditions begin. Whether Mother Nature agrees with the plan, or if the declared date will actually mean anything is uncertain.

"Have they lost their minds?" asked one critic who preferred to remain unnamed. "The dew-point measurements gave hard data upon which to form a rational judgment, and we can see that the monsoon conditions began over a nearly five-week period each year for the past decade." Picking some averaged date off a calendar can't possibly do that, he claims. "It's a good thing they're not managing global warming," he said, a fact that could not be immediately confirmed.

Newspaper reporter Shaun McKinnon dutifully reported the government announcement, getting the details of the press release correct on page one, so no correction is needed, as usual. He did however fail to ask how picking a date instead of taking measurements comports with the scientific method.

"Why should we, the government, be burdened with taking measurements and doing an analysis of conditions, when we can just issue an edict and rely on that?" said one estimated government spokeslady. "If we can't do that for such minor issues as science, how can we justify it for taxes, social programs or war? Think of the efficiency, and all the money it might save. Money doesn't come from rain clouds, you know."

The idea that schools might teach students that thunderstorms can be dangerous, or that people already know that, thus eliminating the need for government to pick an official start date for public safety, was not addressed. According to the "news," thunderstorms produce "damaging winds, dust clouds and flash floods." Thunder, which can scare people and pets, and lightning, which can kill people and pets, was not mentioned. The change, "reflects advances in weather forecasting technology," the reporter said, with a straight face.

Tags: monsoons, National Weather Service, dew point, Tony Haffer

Peoria Shooting Warranted: Korwin on TV

A home owner in Peoria, Arizona shot and injured an intruder on March 20th. The homeowner, police say, did everything right:

"He seemed to do everything right," said Peoria Police Spokesperson Mike Tellef. "He told the man to stop a couple times and when he didn't, he (Kallas) defended himself."

Full text of the article on the shooting can be found here. There's video from the channel 15 report at that link, and here's a direct link to just the video. I appear in the article and video discussing the circumstances under which shooting an intruder is defensible. For example:

Gun law expert and author Alan Korwin says the legal trends favor homeowners and business owners in these situations, but it has to be clear that your life is being threatened.

"Chasing someone and shooting them is not self defense," he said.

Arizona recently passed the Castle Doctrine, which presumes homeowners are being threatened when someone breaks into their home.

"That doesn't mean it's ok to shoot some drunk kid who might have accidently entered your home," Korwin explained.

Click through to the video to see me in action!

Papers Hide Mismanagement

The lamestream media told you:

Like cities nationwide, "Drastic cuts to hit Phoenix city services" says a screaming page-one headline in Gannett's number two (after USA Today) newspaper, The Arizona Republic, on March 7. Emotional images show "victims" of the cuts, including seniors playing cards, a two-year-old in a pool and a library building.

The story however says, "Disastrous holiday sales will force Phoenix to slash more from its budget than planned... eating further into services provided by Police, Fire," and other city services. The lead says weak holiday sales are the problem.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Following a discredited financial model that could bankrupt any ordinary business or family, cities continue to get into hot water by spending money they don't have, hoping their revenues will increase in the future. Setting budgets based on guesswork about future taxes is called "insanity" by some experts.

Complicit in the corrupt accounting methods, "news" media identify the problem as weak consumer sales, and warn of threats to two-year-olds who use taxpayer-funded swimming pools and government-run senior centers. The most egregious deception, experts say, is the near constant alarm that essential services will be cut for fire, police, 911 and emergency medical services.

By accusing consumers of spending too little the blame is placed on the public instead of on politicians and city planners where it belongs. No mention of the problem of spending money you don't have is included in the stories. That's why they're called, "stories."

Politicians, refusing to go on the record, privately admit that you eliminate new carpeting, painting, building expansions, entitlement giveaways and salary increases before cutting police and fire services. "Essential services are cut last if ever," said one high-ranking official on condition of anonymity. Reporters were apparently unable to obtain such information, instead threatening cuts to fire and police on page one.

In other news, the entire state approved a spending freeze, "as a way to move along sluggish negotiations on bridging the current-year budget gap." The state finds itself in the same mess for identical reasons plaguing cities -- they've planned to spend money they don't have.

"The action in the House and Senate came on party-line votes, with Republicans voting for it and Democrats denouncing it as a waste of time." The governor will likely veto the bill, with no mention of where the non-existent money might come from.

ACLU Re-arming Felons?

The lamestream media told you:
Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The ACLU has begun a campaign to restore the rights of felons. In Arizona, the "civil rights" groups claims it would add 166,000 new voters to the rolls. People with felony convictions automatically lose the right to vote, run for or hold office, circulate candidate or referendum petitions, or to own, have, buy or use guns.

The current plan is to only restore the right to vote however, treating these people as half citizens whose rights are not really restored, but who, it is believed, will tip the voting balance in the country.

Felons, or so the thinking goes, will vote largely with the various takings coalitions, and the people running the restoration effort, who are essentially Democratics.

"America is the land of second chances," the ACLU claimed in its Fall, 2007, Arizona newsletter, "and when the gates of prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life."

That path is less than clear however. "If a person is now whole, and the right to vote is reinstated, then surely that person should have all rights intact, and be free from the disabilities that a felony conviction imposes," said the Uninvited Ombudsman in an interview.

"If the person remains dangerous, or is not sufficiently free of the past to exercise all civil rights, then how can such people be given the vote? Can the ACLU truly justify marginalizing that group by declaring them fit for only a single civil right? Are these felons members of society or aren't they?"

Critics charge that the ACLU's move is a perverse attempt to tip the nation in favor of Democrats in the upcoming presidential election, by adding a new voting bloc to that party. Whether being known as the party of former felony convicts with a single civil right is a good thing is unclear, though the extra votes might swing elections, so who cares.

Tags: ACLU

Media Elitists Grieving

The lamestream media told you:
The tragic crash of two news helicopters in Phoenix has caused the deaths of their pilot/reporters and is a tragedy of untold proportions. Here now with continuing 24-hour non-stop breathless news coverage of this horrific event that has ended, is another live report from the scene, with flashing emergency lights on stationary police vehicles in the background and yellow emergency tape flapping in the breeze.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The unmitigated bias and gall of the news media was amply demonstrated Friday by the incessant and shallow national coverage of four people who died in an accident. Because the dead were reporters, their faces were shown on TV upwards of 30 times per hour, long after the deaths occurred and after any semblance of news value had ended. Other news was preempted for hours.

A widely promoted public mantra is that everyone's life is equally valuable. The media's actions prove they do not hold to such nonsense, or at least, that it does not apply to them.

Live reports of nothing happening at the scene continued into the next day, totally obscuring any other deaths suffered by non-reporters, such as crime victims tragically murdered and ripped from their families (estimated at more than 35 per day), accident victims (estimated at 100 per day from cars alone), medical malpractice victims (estimated at 270 per day, though the figure is hotly disputed and may be merely 27 per day), health victims including people who have contributed significantly to society, and others, who die by the tens of thousands all the time. No live reports from the scene of these events were known to be broadcast to American viewers, for unknown reasons.

Some reporters are reportedly in severe grief and may seek counseling following the deaths of the two pilot-reporters and two on-board camerapersons. Though reasons are still under investigation, eye witnesses said the pilots crashed their helicopters into each other while covering a police car chase from the air. The man now in police custody after the car chase may be held accountable for murder in the helicopter crash, according to the Houston Chronicle, located more than a thousand miles away in Texas.

Five days later the same story was still being promoted on the front page in Phoenix where the crash occurred. Ignoring the if-it-bleeds-it-leads principle that guides much modern reporting, the no-new-news crash story squeezed out the 267 other people (stats from CDC and other sources for 2003) who die accidentally every single day from electrocution, crushing, poisoning, falls from great and small heights, drowning, suffocation, burning to death, dismemberment in cars, choking on toys and food, and other absolutely horrible causes of death.

The risk you news consumers face from helicopter crashes is virtually zero, while the real risks you and your neighbors do face are fully suppressed by media personnel glorifying themselves with incessant non news on page one.

Reporters could not be reached to comment on this insensitive, cold-hearted, remorseless, uncompassionate, tasteless screed for the poor departed souls who killed themselves, "doing what they loved."

Tags: media bias, Phoenix, helicopters, helicopter crash