Clunker Carnahan

Poor Russ Carnahan. He is such a Clunker!! He's not even my Congressman but I find his antics truly entertaining.

Here's more from St. Louis:




Russ's latest claim to fame was calling out the union thugs for his townhall meeting on August 6th. There, Kenneth Gladney, a mild-mannered Conservative handing out Gadsden flag buttons was beaten by 4 union purple shirts. In an August 7th interview with Laura Ingraham on the O'Reilly Factor, Ken stated that he was called a racial epithet by one of the union heavies, pushed to the ground, and kicked in the head and other parts of his body. This was witnessed by a number of persons, including a personal friend who is a lawyer now representing Ken. Mr. Gladney was taken to a hospital where he was treated and held and six persons, including one local reporter, were arrested.

Carnahan also denied entry to over 1,000 protestors who attended this meeting forcing them to assemble outside the meeting location. Carnahan allocated at least half of the room to his union "security" force and they were ushered in to the meeting place by a separate entrance. Now, who had organized and "bussed in" a mob for this event?


Fellow Missourians in St. Louis - keep at it till all the vermin are gone. Ya gotta love this guy, he makes our job so much easier.

The Most Trusted Man in America

Walter Cronkite died July 17th at the age of 92. He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, north of Kansas City, and lived in Kansas City till age 10 when his family moved to Texas. He was a son of Missouri. He also was a Boy Scout, Episcopalian, and DeMolay member. He graduated high school but not college, dropping out of the University of Texas in junior year. He started his career in broadcasting as a radio announcer in Oklahoma City then back to his hometown of Kansas City. Perhaps that makes him a colleague of sorts of other great radio broadcasters who also are college drop outs: Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Or perhaps that is where the similarity ends.

Walter Cronkite was called the most trusted man in America. How did he acquire that appellation?

Cronkite covered World War II including battles in North Africa and Europe, bombing raids over Germany, the Battle of the Bulge, even the Nuremberg trials. He was a UP reporter in Moscow for two years. In the early days of 1950s television, Cronkite, recruited by Edward R. Murrow, joined CBS News and was one of the first reporters to be termed an "anchor" which referred to his role covering the 1952 Republican and Democrat conventions. His accomplishments are discussed extensively in many reference sources.

In 1962 he took over as the anchor of CBS Evening News. I remember Walter Cronkite but I do not remember watching him regularly as he reported the news. We watched the Huntley-Brinkley Report in our house; Good night, David, Good night, Chet. There was something soothing about those two guys that left a young kid feeling good about the news in those days of 1960s turmoil and nightly war reports from Southeast Asia, like a daily soap opera to which we eventually grew numb.

When Chet Huntley retired in 1970, Cronkite assisted by the substantial investment of CBS in its news programming, surpassed NBC and dominated the nightly news until his retirement.

Cronkite announced his retirement on February 14, 1980. This is his farewell statement from March 1981:

“This is my last broadcast as the anchorman of The CBS Evening News; for me, it's a moment for which I long have planned, but which, nevertheless, comes with some sadness. For almost two decades, after all, we've been meeting like this in the evenings, and I'll miss that. But those who have made anything of this departure, I'm afraid have made too much. This is but a transition, a passing of the baton. A great broadcaster and gentleman, Doug Edwards, preceded me in this job, and another, Dan Rather, will follow. And anyway, the person who sits here is but the most conspicuous member of a superb team of journalists; writers, reporters, editors, producers, and none of that will change. Furthermore, I'm not even going away! I'll be back from time to time with special news reports and documentaries, and, beginning in June, every week, with our science program, Universe. Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is: Friday, March 6, 1981. I'll be away on assignment, and Dan Rather will be sitting in here for the next few years. Good night."

There was something about Walter Cronkite that I did not like or trust. I have no idea what it was or that I understood it then. Now, in retrospect, I think it was my true common-sense, budding conservative self capable of ascertaining truth-tellers from snake charmers - those people who harbor a deep, dark evil secret within their being.

So when Walter left the airwaves I did not shed a tear of sentiment. He was gone, I didn't watch him anyway.

But in later years I learned some truly disturbing facts about Walter Cronkite.

By the time he campaigned in western Missouri for his Democrat "barbie-doll" cousin as she ran for national office - she who nearly devastated the Kansas City economy from her term as mayor, I found myself hissing at the TV screen when he appeared promoting her, full of the realization that he was not just a liberal, but a radical globalist that promoted the dominance of the United Nations and the withering away of the United States. A man who spewed the most vile, treasonous rhetoric to whomever would listen. And they did listen and sop it up.

For example, in a 1999 speech he gave before an audience at the UN when he was awarded the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award from the World Federalists Association, he stated that "the first step toward achieving a one-world government is to strengthen the United Nations." This is said to be his personal dream.

"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order," emphasis added.

Cronkite also reportedly stated the following: "American people are going to begin to realize they are going to have to yield some sovereignty to an international body to enforce world law..."

Cronkite is renowned for his negative impact on the Viet Nam conflict when he announced on his news program in February 1968 following a victory for U.S. and South Vietnamese troops and a defeat for the Communist North Vietnamese:

"For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate."

Shortly after the famous Cronkite "Report from Viet Nam..." then President, Lyndon Johnson, was heard to say "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." Within weeks Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection.

In more recent years, Walter Cronkite steadfastly supported Bill Clinton during the impeachment proceedings; in 2006 he presented the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award to actor and activist George Clooney as the chairman of the Interfaith Alliance (an organization opposed to conservative Christians and which maintained a radio show on leftist Air America); he wrote a column in which he regularly condemned President George W. Bush and the Iraq war; he appeared in the 2004 film "Outfoxed" which bashed Rupert Murdoch and Fox News; and he was a contributing writer to far left blog, The Huffington Post.

This month of July 2009, the local news shows all carried their obligatory, hushed voice, reverential reports of this great American icon and not one mentioned Walter Cronkite's radical anti-America globalist agenda. Was he an icon of Americanism or an icon of radical anti-American sentiment?

To me, this passing is a reminder that we must be ever vigilant in assessing the agenda and the veracity of our once "free press." Fortunately, for those of us on the Right who love and pursue the Truth, we have the new media and the Internet, and no longer are captive to the so-called news from ABC, NBC, and CBS and print media as we were when I was a child.

Dynastic Delusions

Russ Carnahan is the U.S. Representative of Missouri's Third District serving since January 2005. His district includes parts of St. Louis City and St. Louis Counties and all of Jefferson and Ste. Genevieve Counties. Russ and his wife, Debra, are lawyers formerly in private practice together and Debra now is a St. Louis municipal judge. Russ is the son of the late Democrat governor of Missouri, Mel Carnahan, and non-elected/appointed former U.S. Senator and former First Lady, Jean Carnahan. Russ's grandfather, A.S.J. Carnahan, was a member of Congress from Missouri as well, and Russ's sister, Robin Carnahan is the current Missouri Secretary of State and presumed Democrat candidate for the soon to be vacated U.S. Senate seat of Christopher "Kit" Bond.

Russ distinguished himself lately for meeting on July 20th with his constituents in the St. Louis area pushing Obamacare and well, frankly, making a fool of himself earning national coverage and ridicule.




Russ seems to be just one more liberal lawyer/politician who operates from the underlying assumption that all Americans are created stupid. Unfortunately for Russ, the apparent uninformed brain frozen robot spouting drivel looks to be Russ Carnahan himself.

Political dynasties seem to breed defective issue - just ask the millions afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome. Upon close inspection, the Carnahans offer little in American ingenuity and intellect let alone responsive respect for the people they serve. Isn't it time to end one more American dynasty and let the Carnahans figure out how to be productive members of society rather than empty-headed twits trading on the public persona of their predecessors?

Missouri Musings - An Introduction

I am a Florida girl, through and through. OK, I know I was born in Michigan and grew up there and now I live in the Midwest. In fact, I have lived in the Heartland longer than anywhere I ever lived in my life. But isn't home where the heart is? I did live 16 wonderful years in South Florida traversing my teen years to mid-adulthood. The cloud streaked skies, the sounds of rustling palms and lapping ocean waves as they caress the sand, the smell of salt water, and the screech of marine birds overhead - all within reach if I just close my eyes and summon them. So, for me, I am still a Florida girl. But the name of the blog is Missouri Musings so what does that have to do with a Florida girl?

Well, this Florida girl will be musing from her Missouri home, sometimes about Missouri, travel in and around Missouri, politics, local and national, recipes, and who knows what else - isn’t that what musing is all about?

So, this is my new, very personal blog. I hope it will be thoughtful, entertaining, provocative, and just an all around good read.