Rock the Vote all the Way to the Left

“Rock the Vote’s mission is to engage and build the political power of young people in order to achieve progressive change in our country.

Rock the Vote uses music, popular culture and new technologies to engage and incite young people to register and vote in every election. And we give young people the tools to identify, learn about, and take action on the issues that affect their lives, and leverage their power in the political process.

We are creative, effective, and controlled by nobody’s agenda but our own – we tell it like it is and pride ourselves on being a trusted source for information on politics. We empower the 45 million young people in America who want to step up, claim their voice in the political process, and change the way politics is done.” (http://www.rockthevote.com/about/)


Sounds like a good organization, doesn’t it? If one took it at face value (as many people do without a second thought) it would appear to simply be a well-intended outreach for new voters to help them understand the confusing world that they have just entered. They use up to date techniques to keep young people involved and interested. One problem: Everyone has a biased and these people are leaning so far to the left that they should worry about the affectsof gravity taking them to the ground.
Rock the Vote is sponsored by MTV, the popular music channel. MTV is owned by Viacom whose CEO is a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat by the name of Sumner Redstone. With the issues that they support including Health Care, environmental protection, curbing the cost of higher education, and voter education they tend more towards their CEO’s beliefs. They are anything but objective when they have been supported by MoveOn.org (a site funded by George Soros [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977] amongst others) and have ties to the Tides Foundation (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5184&category=79) via the Proteus Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5265),People for the American Way (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6400), Campaign for America’s Future (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7331), ACORN (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968), and many other left-wing organizations.


Before taking the things you see every day at face value, make sure that you research them. Rock the Vote assures their viewers and participants that they are unbiased, but if given half a moment to speak, show their true selves very quickly. Their latest project has been the health care debate, focusing their advertisements in line with the overhaul that Congress has proposed and are about to vote on. (Just a brief warning: there is language in the video).


Young conservatives in America must become more aware of their surroundings and active against them, but nothing can be done if we are not aware of what is happening .

Islamic Mosque to be Opened next to Ground Zero

One would think that after the attacks of September 11, 2001, that Americans would be more wary of what happens on our own soil. I remember that day very well and the many emotions that ran through me: fear, worry, confusion, and finally, anger and the wish to stop at nothing to avenge the innocent men and women that died in the Twin Towers. It has now been eight years and it seems that many have forgotten the range of emotions that ran through each of us that day. According to Chelsea Schilling of WorldNetDaily, (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119328) a new Muslim mosque will open on the doorstep of Ground Zero.

While not all Muslims are responsible for the horrors of 9/11, it is a disgrace to the memory of those that died in the attacks to have a “complete Islamic cultural center, with a mosque, a museum, ‘merchandising options,’ and room for seminars to reconcile religions, ‘to counteract the backlash against Muslims in general’” just down the street from where the attacks by Muslim radicals took place. Also, ironically enough, a Jewish museum for the Holocaust is also just down the way. Political correctness strikes again. Rauf, the Imam of the new mosque that believes that the blame for the civilian attacks should lay on the Christian population, said that was supposed to have the “…opposite statement to what happened on 9/11.” It’s a statement, alright, but I hardly trust it. If the tables had been turned and a group of radicals that claimed to be Christians had attacked civilians in the Middle East and then sympathizers built a church next to the site, the whole world would call for retribution.

So why is it that Christians are always seen as the villains and the Muslim community (especially those that sympathize with the radicals) have been glorified so that they may do no wrong? Why is it that a man like Nidal Hasan can pass through all of the security of Fort Hood to shoot and kill soldiers when he was on watch for radical statements? Because people feared to be seen as being part of the “Muslim backlash” that the left speaks of so often speak of, there were thirteen needless deaths on base before the men and women were to deploy to the Middle East to help protect this country that we live in. Instead of the wariness that should accompany an attack on our own soil the media has made it the politically correct thing to overprotect the Muslim community so that they can do no wrong. Along with those innocent, we seem to be protecting those that are guilty as well, like giving rights to the terrorist and trials in New York City as if they were American citizens.

It’s difficult to look out on our country and see that the “tolerance” of political correctness has turned to submission. We need to learn the difference between kindness towards our fellow man and spinelessness against those that hate us. In an idealistic world the kindness that we show our enemies would win them over into friendship, but this world is far from idealistic and one cannot reason with those that believe that their god has commanded them to kill those that do not believe as they do. Those that open the mosque between Ground Zero and the museum to remember the Jewish Holocaust do so to make a statement, that is one thing that is for sure, but I cannot believe it is for the better.