“The truth is most Americans don’t want much,” Michelle Obama insisted during the campaign. That someone, of course, does not include Michelle nor her brood.
Michelle Obama likes pie. Especially your pie. Doesn’t matter how hard you worked to get your pie, she wants it. In fact, she thinks it would be a really good idea if everyone had a piece of your pie.
Here’s what the First Lady said on the campaign trail on April 8, 2008.
“The truth is most Americans don’t want much. Folks don’t want the whole pie. Most Americans feel blessed to thrive a little bit. But that’s out of reach for them. The truth is, in order to get things like universal healthcare and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
That someone, of course, does not include Michelle nor her brood. No, they’ll be grabbing pieces of everyone’s pies during their upcoming vacation at a plush Martha’s Vineyard estate. No one’s quite sure what this little getaway will cost the taxpayers, but similar properties in the area go for as much as $50,000 per week.
We don’t begrudge the Obamas their chance to live the lifestyle of the rich and famous.
Welcome to tonight’s main event. In one corner, we have the lunatics from PETA, who believe nothing is more important than saving animals. In the other corner, we have the wackos from NOW who believe every woman is beautiful.
There’s nothing more entertaining – absolutely nothing – than when leftist special interest groups square off against each other.
Welcome to tonight’s main event. In one corner, we have the lunatics from PETA, who believe nothing is more important than saving animals. In the other corner, we have the wackos from NOW who believe every woman is beautiful.
This may be the first time we’ve ever thrown our support behind PETA.
Yeah, we know it’s an old video clip, but we figure it never hurts to remind our fellow Americans exactly who represents them around the world.
What foreign nation could possibly resist this lovely charmer’s powers of persuasion. Why it’s no wonder all the world loves us now. Since January 20, that is.
For anyone who gave the details of Bill Clinton’s North Korean “rescue” the slightest thought, the veracity of it is called into question by obvious PR spin surrounding it.
The Daily Mail UK reveals details about Euna Lee and Laura Ling that make them seem much less sympathetic
You’ve undoubtedly read all about (a) the horrible ordeal suffered by American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee at the hands of the North Koreans and (b) how they were “rescued” by Bill Clinton, the daring former president.
For anyone who gave the details of this story the slightest thought, the veracity of (a) is called into question by obvious PR spin surrounding (b).
Here’s a perspective you’ve probably never seen, as reported by the UK Daily Mail:
But who are these two fresh-faced women? What were they doing in North Korea, undoubtedly one of the most dangerous and repressed places in the world, and how on earth did they get themselves into what a friend jauntily described on one website as ‘a bit of a disastrous pickle’?
… they were hopelessly ill-prepared for their ‘mission’ to the Chinese-Korean border, that they were working for a minor television organisation run by a former ambulance-chasing lawyer…
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Laura, 32, describes herself as a ‘Chinese American’, but a friend said: ‘She was brought up as a true Valley girl [an upper middle-class girl]. She’s about as Chinese as the cuisine at Chin Chin [a popular Californian-Chinese restaurant chain].’
Laura is said to be the duo’s ‘driving force’. Euna, 36, who had little journalism experience and counted making a yoga video as a career highlight, was her devoted lackey, who reportedly held the video camera as Laura ‘danced around’ on the North Korean side of the border.
For Euna, who was born in South Korea but moved to California when she was a university student, it was her first overseas assignment. The trip was Laura’s second ‘dangerous’ foreign job for Current, a Left-wing cable television network based in San Francisco that rather grandly aspires to ‘democratise’ the news.
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The two women were sent to China in March to do a report about North Korean refugees pouring over the border. A source familiar with Current said: ‘It was the sort of bleeding-hearts liberal story that would play well to their target market. But then Laura decided to take it a step further.’
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‘Laura is sweet but not very street-smart,’ said (a long-time Democratic Party insider). ‘She was sent to China to make a routine programme about refugees crossing the border from North Korea but, according to Kim Jong Il’s people, she was walking across the border and leaping about.
‘The official North Korean report said Euna was holding the camera. Of course, there was speculation they were working for the CIA. Forget that. This has been a farce. It couldn’t be more embarrassing for Obama and the agency. No one hired these girls. No one in Washington had ever heard about them until they were captured by the North Koreans.
‘From everything I have heard about Laura, she is a Valley girl who wanted to play in the big league. I think she did this as a stunt to compete with her sister. Lisa Ling works with people like Oprah. Laura earns peanuts at a network no one has heard of. This was her big chance.’
On March 17, Laura and Euna were arrested by North Korean soldiers after they ignored orders to stop filming. Then they vanished into the maw of the most isolated nation on Earth.
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In fact, their ‘ordeal’ appears to have been far from tough. According to Professor Han Park, an American academic who was visiting North Korea at the time, they were housed in a guest villa designed for foreign visitors outside the capital of Pyongyang.
Professor Park said that Korean officials laughed at any suggestion that the women were receiving harsh treatment. ‘We are not Guantanamo,’ he was told.
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Indeed, (Ling’s) worst complaint was that her rice tasted like ‘rocks’.
The Clinton confidant said: ‘The women were a prize. Most people in North Korea would be lucky to be treated the way those girls were.’
Call us cold-hearted, but after reading the Daily Mail piece in full, we have a lot less sympathy for Ling and Lee.
They caused their own problem by crossing the border illegally and “leaping about” for the camera. They were held for 140 days in the relative luxury of a guest villa normally reserved for foreign visitors. And they received treatment that would have made them the envy of the average North Korean.
Fact is, contestants on Survivor endure greater hardships than those faced by the American reporters. But like the winners of Survivor, Ling and Lee are already lining up book and TV deals that will pay them millions.
Kissida is hoping a liberal judge will suspend any sentence based on the fact that he may have killed a man, but he helped save the earth.
Timothy Kissida, suspect in a fatal hit-and-run accident
Charles Waldrop was peacefully riding his bicycle home from work a few minutes after midnight last Saturday when he was struck and killed by a car driven by Phoenix-area resident Timothy Kissida.
That’s the tragic part of the story, but not the interesting part. Kissida was apprehended later and booked on one count of leaving the scene of a fatal accident and another count of tampering with evidence.
Police knew the suspect vehicle was a “silver BMW” because parts of the car were found at the scene of the crime.
Hours after the accident, Kissida drove to a Phoenix-area auto dealership and traded in his 1992 BMW as part of the “Cash for Clunkers” program.
Kissida told the dealer that his car had been damaged when he hit a javelina. (Don’t feel bad. We didn’t know what the hell a javelina was, either. Turns out it’s a wild boar found in semi-desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States).
The javelina has been cleared of any involvement in the incident
After receiving an anonymous tip, police swooped in, search warrants in hand, arresting Kissida and seizing his clunker from the dealer.
“I think it shows that people go to drastic means to try to avoid apprehension,” said Phoenix Police Sgt. Tommy Thompson.
Kissida is hoping a liberal judge will suspend any sentence based on the fact that he may have killed a man, but he helped save the earth.
Reporter Damon Weaver sat down with President Obama at the White House on Thursday. Nothing odd about that. Except for one thing: Damon is an 11-year old sixth grader from Florida.
Reporter Damon Weaver sat down with President Obama at the White House on Thursday. Nothing odd about that. Except for one thing: Damon is an 11-year old sixth grader from Florida.
According to the Palm Beach Sun-Sentinel, “Damon has been angling for an interview with Obama since before the election. He was in Washington, D.C., for the presidential inauguration in January, and then again in June to accept a Shortie Award, in an international competition honoring student film and news productions. While there, he toured part of the West Wing of the White House and received a congratulatory letter from Biden.”
Now that Obama is wearing thin on the major TV networks, he has moved his charm offensive down the demographic ladder in an attempt to appeal to voters who won’t be able cast their ballots until he runs for his third term in 2016.
Make no mistake about it, no matter how much Redmond inherited, there’s only one Six Million Dollar Man and that’s Fawcett’s former husband Lee Majors.
England’s Daily Mail reports that actress Farrah Fawcett left her $6,000,000 estate to her troubled 24-year-old son Redmond O’Neal.
Make no mistake about it, no matter how much Redmond inherited, there’s only one Six Million Dollar Man and that’s Fawcett’s former husband Lee Majors.
ObamaCare features mandatory “end of life counseling” for seniors every five years. Monty Python helps explain this is a very complex concept.
ObamaCare features mandatory “end of life counseling” for seniors every five years. This is a very complex concept and many people wonder exactly what it means.
It’s all explained in this clip from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
Thing is, when Monty Python explains it, it’s funny. With ObamaCare, not so much.
The UK Daily Mail’s story of the “rescue” of the two American reporters was a terrific piece of reporting that swept away all the PR spin. It’s packed with fascinating little nuggets.
Poor Gore. Even pot-bellied, little tinhorn dictators aren't buying his act.
The UK Daily Mail’s story of the “rescue” of the two American reporters was a terrific piece of reporting that swept away all the PR spin. It’s packed with fascinating little nuggets. For example:
For Bill Clinton, it was an easy mission. In a phone call to her husband a month ago, Laura (Ling) said that if Clinton turned up, she and Euna (Lee) would be granted amnesty.
The Clinton insider said: ‘Obama’s people suggested sending Al Gore, but Kim Jong Il only wanted Bill.
They didn’t want Al Gore. Proof that Americans and North Koreans, people from two very different cultures, have a lot in common.
Damon Lloyd Goffe, a Bronx poet, is suing Oprah Winfrey for $1.2 trillion, claming she ripped off his poems and published them under a different title.
Talk show queen Oprah thinks about losing a $1.2 trillion
Oprah Winfrey is getting her ass sued off, which you may agree is a good thing if you’ve seen the talk show queen lately.
Damon Lloyd Goffe, a Bronx poet, is suing Winfrey for $1.2 trillion, claming she ripped off his poems and published them under a different title.
The National Enquirer reports:
In the legal papers, Goffe says that “in April 2008 Oprah confessed to seizing original works of authorship” and published on the internet the first draft of his work ” A Tome of Poetry” under another title “Pieces of My Soul.”
The claimant says the website in question is no longer live.
The suit also alleges Oprah sold over 650 million editions of the work online for $20 a copy which “calculates for 1.2 trillion dollars!”
We’re thinking of suing Oprah, too, for convincing millions of idiot women to vote for Barack Obama.
That should be worth a $1.2 gazillion. Give or take a bazillion.
Wacko Democrat Congresswoman Shiela Jackson-Lee was grilled by CNN anchor Rick Sanchez grilled her about taking a phone call while a constituent was asking her a question at a recent town hall meeting.
A woman comes home from work early and finds her husband in bed with a beautiful blonde. She screams, she cries, she gets hysterical.
Her husband calmly gets up out of bed, puts on his clothes and walks downstairs to the kitchen, where he pours himself a glass of milk, sits down at the kitchen table and drinks it.
“I want a divorce,” the wife screams. “I can’t believe you had sex with another woman in my bed.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” the husband says. “I’ve never had sex with another woman.”
“I saw it with my own eyes,” the wife screams.
“Who you gonna believe,” the husband asks, me or your lying eyes?”
Penn & Teller’s simple explanation of how taxes work (and why some people don’t). It just seems so simple. So reasonable. So damned obvious. So why don’t people get it?
Note: Go to minute 00:32 to begin. The original video we posted was disabled to a copyright claim by CBS. So far, this is all we have.
It just seems so simple. So reasonable. So damned obvious. So why don’t they get it?
KATY Tur’s star keeps rising at NBC Universal, causing some media watchers to ask whether her fatherly boyfriend, MSNBC blabbermouth Keith Olbermann, 50, could be boosting the news cutie’s ascension.
Keith Olbermann's girlfriend trying to forget the things she may have done to get ahead
We take back all the nasty things we’ve said about Keith Olbermann. It now appears that he is a warm, considerate man who goes out of his way to help young people pursue their broadcasting dreams.
Especially if they curl up in bed with his doughy white body.
Here’s how the New York Post tells the sordid tale:
“KATY Tur’s star keeps rising at NBC Universal, causing some media watchers to ask whether her fatherly boyfriend, MSNBC blabbermouth Keith Olbermann, 50, could be boosting the news cutie’s ascension. Tur, 25, who was hired earlier this year by the NBC-owned Weather Channel to chase storms, has started freelancing as a WNBC/Ch. 4 reporter. An MSNBC rep insisted, ‘Keith has not spoken to anyone about a job at WNBC since 1980. He is delighted that Katy is also working for the Weather Channel.’ Just imagine the reaction if Bill O’Reilly, the object of his pathetic obsession, had a chickie-poo half his age getting promoted on a Fox affiliate. It would be fodder for a weeks worth of Speshul Kommentz.”
While you were reading that quote, we had time to reconsider our position on this issue.
Anyone who actually has sex with Keith Olbermann in order to get ahead has definitely earned whatever success they achieve. And more. Much, much more.
Hillary Clinton has compared the Florida recount in our 2000 presidential election to the massive election fraud that runs rampant in Nigerian politics.
It’s been quite an African trip for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. First she erupted in anger when asked what her husband’s opinion on some issue (we don’t really remember what it was and don’t really care because it was so damn much fun to watch).
Now she’s upped the ante by comparing the Florida recount in our 2000 presidential election to the massive election fraud that runs rampant in Nigerian politics.
“In 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for President was the governor of the state,” she said. “So we have our problems too.”
Let’ just set that absurd comment aside and get to the important issues:
What’s with Hillary frantically rubbing her chest as she answers the question? Our guess is that a body language expert would say it was one of those nervous mannerisms that come out when someone is getting ready to lie.
Finally, we just want to hear the CNN babe pronounce the president of Nigeria’s name again.
Bruce Luther of Rock & Roll Auto Recycling in Pleasanton, California apparently expressed the opinion of many wrecking yard owners when he said the “The CARS act, as written…is horseshit beyond repair.”
Piles of clunkers do not translate into piles of money
Question: Who would give Cash-for-Clunkers such a harsh assessment? Answer: One of the guys directly impacted by the program.
Bruce Luther of Rock & Roll Auto Recycling in Pleasanton, California apparently expressed the opinion of many wrecking yard owners when he said the “The CARS act, as written…is horseshit beyond repair.”
Why?
Because the Cash-for-Clunkers law requires the car dealer to destroy a clunker’s engine and transmission, which typically accounts for around 60% of a vehicle’s salvage value. Then, after they receive a clunker, salvage yards are given just 180 days to make whatever profit they can from scavenged parts. After that? The law says the vehicles must be destroyed.
Current scrap value is a mere $140 a ton, so the average clunker is worth about $280. But it costs about $200 to “detox” a clunker as federal law requires. That leaves the salvage yard with a net profit of just $80 per car.
Hmmmm. Seems like the thing that should be scrapped is this whole Cash-for-Clunkers fiasco.
A $200 back-to-school giveaway for needy kids sparked a mad rush for money on the streets of New York on Tuesday. Who’d a thunk it?
If only we could talk Arianna Huffington into giving us $175 million. We have a feeling that IHateTheMedia.com could become the world’s most popular website if we were simply able to redistribute that wealth to our readers.
The New York Daily News reports on free money mania in New York:
A $200 back-to-school giveaway for needy kids sparked a mad rush for money on the streets of New York on Tuesday.
“It’s free money!” said Alecia Rumph, 26, who waited in a Morris Park, Bronx, line 300 people deep for the cash to buy uniforms and book bags for her two kids.
“Thank God for Obama. He’s looking out for us.”
Get it right, Alecia. Thank the taxpayers who involuntarily ponied up the “free” money.
Paul Krugman, the New York Times Nobel Prize-winning columnist and left wing lunatic, is wrong again. This time, about the Canadian socialized healthcare system.
Paul Krugman, the New York Times Nobel Prize-winning columnist and left wing lunatic, is wrong again. As usual.
During a healthcare debate at Rockefeller Center on September 16, Krugman decided to demonstrate the superiority of the Canadian healthcare system. He asked all the Canadians in the audience to raise their hands. Seven hands went up in the air.
That’s where Krugman should have stopped. Instead, he asked how many of our northern neighbors think they have a terrible healthcare system.
Politicians around the world are attempting to jump on the Barack Obama bandwagon just as its wheels are starting to come off here in the United States.
Chuka Umanna, the British Barack Obama. Has anyone seen his birth certificate?
In a case of remarkably bad timing, politicians around the world are attempting to jump on the Barack Obama bandwagon just as its wheels are starting to come off here in the United States.
For example, in Russia, an immigrant from Guinea-Bissau named Joaquim Crima is running for office in his small town on the Volga River. Using a twist on a common Russian phrase, Crima’s advertising campaign says, “I will toil like a Negro.” Continue reading “The Obama-rama: More Obama’s popping up everywhere”
Investors Business Daily editorializes about the lucky Cubans and their universal healthcare system. Everyone is treated equally, which is apparently a Spanish word that means “poorly.”
Ahhh, the glories of the Democratic People’s Republic of Cuba.
Investors Business Daily editorializes about the lucky Cubans and their universal healthcare system. Everyone is treated equally, which is apparently a Spanish word that means “poorly.”
… CNN is presenting Cuba’s socialized health care system as “a model for health care reform in the United States,” according to a report on the cable network last week. The report credits low cost and universal coverage.
“How does Cuba do it?” gushed the CNN anchor. “First of all, the government dictates salaries. Doctors earn less than $30 per month — very little compared to doctors elsewhere. And priority is given to avoiding expensive procedures, says Gail Reed (a contributor to the Cuban communist party propaganda organ Granma), who’s lived and worked in Cuba for decades.” Continue reading “Do you really want universal healthcare just like Cuba?”
Finally someone in the Muslim world speaks out against the religion’s murdering lunatics. Abdullah Saeed, head of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies at Australia’s Melbourne University.
Abdullah Saeed espouses some very unpopular points of view
Wait. We stand corrected. The following comments weren’t made by an anti-Muslim bigot. They were made by Abdullah Saeed, head of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies at Australia’s Melbourne University.
Finally someone in the Muslim world speaks out against the religion’s murdering lunatics:
The silent majority (of Muslims) should strengthen its campaign of undermining the militancy and hatred advocated by the extremists. This campaign should begin at Friday sermons, in mosques, at homes, through lesson at Muslim weekend and day schools, in study circles and youth camps. This is no doubt happening but more needs to be done in view of the present situation. Continue reading “Far right anti-Muslim bigot speaks out against theology of hate”
London Daily Mail that reveals details about the so-called Bill Clinotn “rescue” of reporters imprisoned in North Korea that have been conspicuously absent in the American media.
"Just me and two hot Asian chicks," the former President mused, "alone in an airplane for fifteen hours."
Last week was like old times for the American media. According to the template, former President Bill Clinton flew into enemy territory and used the power of his charm to free two innocent American journalists who had been unlawfully arrested by the evil North Koreans.
Unfortunately, none of it is true.
Luckily, Sunday’s London Daily Mail that reveals details about the so-called “rescue” that have been conspicuously absent in the American media:
…Bill Clinton has found it increasingly hard to reconcile himself to life on the sidelines. When asked to undertake a ‘sensitive’ mission to ‘rescue’ the pair, he jumped at the chance.
He was picked up at an airport near his home in the bucolic New York suburb of Chappaqua by a private jet laid on by the Dow Chemical company. It flew him 3,000 miles to Burbank, California, where he boarded a Boeing 737 provided by Steve Bing, one of his best friends and a generous contributor to the Clinton Foundation, the charity with which he has been occupying his post-Presidential years. Continue reading “The real story of Slick Willy’s excellent adventure in Pyongyang”
If you’re having trouble separating the hypocrisy in coverage of town hall anger, we’ve prepared this handy guide designed to help you recognize the difference between people who protest and people who cause disruptions.
We apologize for the horrifying photo, but the image of a "two-faced pig" just came to mind when we thought about the media
The media has a problem with all these people showing up to townhall meetings and voicing their dissent. Dissension, after all, is only praiseworthy when its target is a Republican President or conservative lawmakers.
You may remember a few protests against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq during the Bush years. (By the way, whatever happened to war protests?)
Then there was the infamous shoe-chucking incident that was reported in a kind of a jokey way.
England’s Daily Mail reports that actress Farrah Fawcett left her $6,000,000 estate to her troubled 24-year-old son Redmond O’Neal.
Of course, you don’t have to worry about gas prices any more.
