Ahhh, yes. Remember those dark days before President Obama was elected?
Back when race was the only thing on everyone’s mind? Back when it was the only thing discussed on the nightly news? Back when we had an attorney general who called us a nation of race cowards? Back when we had a president who fired poor black women without cause? Back when…
Giving credit where credit is due: Mad Magazine called this one correctly
Oh, wait. We just woke up from the strangest dream.
Bobby Ewing was in the shower and CNN ran this story about President Obama promising that the country would look at itself differently the day he gets inaugurated:
Editor’s Note: The following story appeared on the CNN Political Ticker on July 27, 2007.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says the nation will look at itself differently the day he is inaugurated as America’s first black president.
Obama was addressing the National Urban League Convention’s presidential forum in St. Louis when he was asked what he could do to stop racial polarization in the U.S. Holding up his hand like he was taking the oath, the Illinois senator said, “The day I’m inaugurated, the country looks at itself differently. And don’t underestimate that power. Don’t underestimate that transformation.”
He told the crowd that endless high-minded discussions weren’t the answer to the problem. He said, “Here’s what I won’t do, because we do this all the time. I’m not going to set up a commission, and I’m not going to have a conversation, because we set those up with a lot of fanfare and there’s not any follow-up.”
This story needs no punch line. It’s all just too funny on its own.
H/T: Reader DJ
Attacking conservatives will always guarantee you a job in the mainstream media
So what happens to the conservative blogger for a major mainstream media outlet when he gets fired for attacking the conservatives he’s supposed to cover?
Gawker.com has the unsurprising details:
Dave Weigel, the smart young blogger canned by the Washington Post for saying mean things about Matt Drudge in personal emails, is joining Slate as a political reporter. Fun fact: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Company.
Got that? “Fired” by the mainstream liberal media outlet for attacking conservatives. Wink, wink. Then immediately hired by another branch of the same mainstream liberal media outlet.
If you’re buying that story, we have a stimulus program we’d like to sell you.
Source: Gawker.com
Swoon, Chuck Todd, swoon! Here's a life-size Barack Obama poster from this month's issue of Obama Beat!
We didn’t read Teen Beat magazine, but our teenage sisters never missed an issue. We’re still traumatized by the thought of them swooning over life-sized photos of Fabian and Herman’s Hermits.
In that regard MSNBC’s First Read is exactly like Teen Beat. Take, for example, the following “story” from NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg:
Minimize and move on:
The past 30 days have thrown more distractions at the Obama White House and the Democratic Party — Gen. McChrystal’s firing, the furor over Robert Gibbs’ factual remark that the House is in play, the Shirley Sherrod story, and now Charlie Rangel’s new ethics woes. But what we’ve begun to notice is that Team Obama has become MUCH better at dealing with these distractions. They haven’t figured out how to prevent distractions. (What White House can?). But they are getting better at minimizing the damage and then moving on. In fact, despite all the week’s distractions, the White House racked up some important wins. Signing the financial legislation into law. Seeing the unemployment benefits finally pass Congress. And getting Elena Kagan one step closer to become the nation’s next Supreme Court justice. Yes, the White House still can’t stay on message, but they’re showing they’re more nimble in dealing with distractions. Will they ever get to focus two straight weeks on the economy? It hasn’t happened yet.
We’re glad we stumbled across this little jewel of journalistic excellence, otherwise we may have mistakenly believed that the most transparent administration ever best deals with distractions by pretending that they, much like voter dissatisfaction, simply don’t exist.
And aren’t you sad that that groovy President Obama can’t seem to get a break to work on the nasty old economy and jobs? The poor man can’t even get two whole weeks to focus his marvelous, magical, laser vision on them.
We were disappointed, as we’re sure you were, that the MSNBC story did not include a life-sized photo of the best-looking President ever.
Chuck Todd needs another one for his bedroom wall.
Source: MSNBC
Had a conservative called African-Americans “mongrels”, there wouldn’t be a font size large enough for the headlines that would have run in the mainstream media. Think Pearl Harbor multiplied by Man Lands On Moon. The headline in the New York Times would have taken up the whole front page.
This is a small headline compared to what would run if a conservative had called African-Americans "mongrels"
But when President Obama said it on The View, the mainstream media just nodded and winked. Witness the following story from The Hill:
President Obama waded into the national race debate in an unlikely setting and with an unusual choice of words: telling daytime talk show hosts that African-Americans are “sort of a mongrel people.”
The president appeared on ABC’s morning talk show “The View” Thursday, where he talked about the forced resignation of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, his experience with race and his roots.
When asked about his background, which includes a black father and white mother, Obama said of African-Americans: “We are sort of a mongrel people.”
“I mean we’re all kinds of mixed up,” Obama said. “That’s actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it.”
What a wonderfully post-racial thing to say. It is a good thing that Saint President Obama has transcended all racism now so that remarks like this are no longer offensive.
Unless a Republican were to say it, in which case it would be time to break out the giant fonts again.
Source: The Hill
We actually wish this was a joke, but it’s not.
On July 19, President Obama called in the media to promote the Democrats’ latest extension of unemployment benefits. To help make his point, he brought in one of his patented human props, a Florida woman named Leslie Macko, who has been out of work for more than a year now.
Cue the gnashing of teeth and let the Democrat wailing begin. “Oh, poor Leslie Macko. We must do something for the Leslie Mackos of the world.”
“We need to extend unemployment compensation benefits for women like Leslie Macko, who lost her job at a fitness center last year, and has been looking for work ever since,” the President ominously intoned. “Because she’s eligible for only a few more weeks of unemployment, she’s doing what she never thought she’d have to do. Not at this point, anyway. She’s turning to her father for financial support.”
Unfortunately, no one at the White House bothered to research why Leslie Macko was unemployed. They should have.
Turns out Macko was canned from her job as an esthetician after being was convicted of prescription drug fraud.
Just like these clowns should all be canned for Hope and Change fraud.
Source: Hot Air
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