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Fox News doomed: Bow-tied bozo Tucker Carlson to join network

Loosen up the bow tie, Tucker, it seems to be cutting off circulation to your brain.
Loosen up the bow tie, Tucker, it seems to be cutting off circulation to your brain.

Tucker Carlson, the ratings-challenged, bow-tied bozo who has driven away viewers from two other cable news networks, will begin working his magic at Fox News.

Here’s how MediaBistro.com reports the remarkably dull announcement:

After appearances on “Red Eye,” Tucker Carlson made it official this morning becoming a paid contributor to Fox News Channel. His first appearance, coming on his 40th birthday, was on Fox & Friends just after 7am ET.

“Life begins at 40 and your Fox career begins at 40 too,” said co-anchor Dave Briggs.

“I’ve waited a long time to get here and I’m glad to be here,” said Carlson. “We’re delighted to have you,” added Alisyn Camerota.

Carlson spent five years at CNN co-hosting “Crossfire” until its cancellation. He jumped to MSNBC in 2005 and stayed through the 2008 presidential election.

Tucker Carlson is the Typhoid Mary of cable network news. His mere appearance on the air is enough to sicken otherwise healthy ratings.

Good luck, Fox.

Source: MediaBistro.com

Holder says administration will “do its best” not to release dangerous prisoners from Gitmo

Don't miss the Jihad booth at the Wednesday night Farmer's Market in Fairfax County.
Don't miss the Jihad booth at the Wednesday night Farmer's Market in Fairfax County.

The President’s going to do his best to make sure dangerous terrorists aren’t released in the United States.

Of course, this is the same guy whose best choice for Vice President was Joe Biden and whose best choice for Treasury Secretary was Timothy Geithner and whose best choice for Health & Human Services Secretary was Tom Daschle and whose best choice of a gift for Queen Elizabeth was an iPod.

CNSNews.com reports:

Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee that his department will “do its best” to make sure that Guantanamo Bay detainees who pose a threat to the United States are kept imprisoned after President Barack Obama’s order to close down Gitmo is carried out.

The story continues:

Suspected al-Qaeda terrorists aren’t the only ones being detained at Gitmo. Holder was asked about 17 Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo known as Uighurs (WEE-gurs).

“In terms of release [of Uighurs], we don’t have a choice, they have to be released,” said Holder during the testimony. “Unless (you’re asking) us to defy an order from the United States court.”

The Uighurs were cleared of suspected terrorism, but have been held at Gitmo because they cannot be returned to China.

Obama’s current plan is to release the Uighurs in Fairfax County, Virginia. But rest assured that the administration will do its best to keep them from slaughtering too many innocent Americans.

Source: CNSNews.com

Restaurant’s bottom line improves due to bustline

This is one of the odder stories of the day.

Kenny Tessel, owner of a Reading, Ohio barbeque restaurant thought of a clever way to combat a drop in business.

He bought a busty lifelike mannequin, dressed it in a bikini, and put it in his front window. Voila! Business started busting out all over.

“She has done it,” Tessel said about the mannequin he’s named Barbie Q. “She has made people stop. I know that sounds crazy and it’s hard to believe.”

Unfortunately, the city’s busybodies have complained about Barbie’s body. Yes, they’re offended by a mannequin in a bikini. Tessel was forced to appear before Reading’s Design Review Board to get a permit for Barbie. The board ruled that the well-endowed mannequin could stay, but that she’d also have to stay “covered up.”

This is truly a case where the cover-up is worse than the crime.

Soruce: NBC New York

Headline of the Day
“Obama admits current spending is unsustainable”

“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

Oddly enough, it sounds as if he’s not aware that he’s the one doing all the spending.

Source: Bloomberg via Drudge

Obama’s massive borrowing looks like sub-prime loan scandal all over again

The Sub-Prime Fiasco and the Obama Spending Fiasco. Parallel tracks meeting in the distance.
The Sub-Prime Fiasco and the Obama Spending Fiasco. Parallel tracks meeting in the distance.

Have you ever noticed the strange parallels between the last year’s sub-prime loan fiasco and this year’s Obama spending fiasco?

In the subprime fiasco, people borrowed money to live far beyond their means. In the Obama spending fiasco, the government’s borrowing money to live far beyond its means.

In the subprime fiasco, everyone in charge knew the borrowers would never be able to repay their debts. In Obama’s spending fiasco, everyone in charge knows the government will never be able to repay its debts.

In the subprime fiasco, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd assured everyone that everything was ok. In Obama’s spending fiasco, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are assuring everyone that everything will be ok.

In the subprime fiasco, anyone who raised an objection was called a racist. In Obama’s deficit spending fiasco, anyone who raises an objection is called a racist.

In the end, there really is only one difference between these two fiascos. This one has a lot more zeroes.

Clinton Foundation offering internships. Seriously.

Clinton Foundation offers internships. You can't make this stuff up.
Clinton Foundation offers internships. You can't make this stuff up.

We quote from the Clinton Foundation website:

“Interns and volunteers are critical to accomplishing the Clinton Foundation’s mission and are valued members of our team. Find the right position for you and apply online today.”

We’re pretty sure we know what kind of positions they’re talking about. And none of them are “missionary.”

Source: ClintonFoundation.org

Commercial of the Day: What do these people have in common?

We won’t tell you who produced this commercial because it might give you a clue to the answer of the question it poses:

What do all these people have in common? John Lennon, Nelson Mandella, Babe Ruth, Jamie Foxx, Nancy Reagan, Bill Clinton, Jack Nicholson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Wendy’s Dave Thomas, Sarah McLachlan, Steve Jobs, Jesse Jackson, Newt Gingrich, Willie Nelson, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Do you know? Do you have a guess? Watch the commercial and learn the answer.

The Wanda Sykes’ Obama Roast:
the way it should have been

Tradition dictates that the White House Correspondents Dinner roast the president. But host Wanda Sykes could not hide her liberal leanings and after a few polite Obama jokes, tore into the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others on the Obama Enemy List instead. This video shows us what the “roast” would have been like in an alternate universe, one where the media treats all sides fairly.

H/T: The Big Feed

Hugo Chavez names new Venezuela cell phone after his penis. No, that is not a typo.

Looks like there’s no one left in Venezuela brave enough to tell Hugo Chavez when one of his ideas is stupid.

The Venezuelan strongman (we can’t bring ourselves to call him “President”) just launched one of the world’s most inexpensive cell phones. At just $15, it rivals the cheapest Asian phones.

Hey, Hugo, is that a Vergatorio in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Hey, Hugo, is that a Vergatorio in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

The stupid part is that he named it the Vergatorio, which is Venezuelan slang for penis. He even made penis jokes at the public product launch.

Why, you may wonder, is the Venezuelan leader introducing a new cell phone and giving it an offensive name? Because he can. He recently nationalized the company that developed the phone, which makes him its new chief executive.

Makes sense to us. And we look forward to seeing Barack Obama introduce the exciting new 2010 Chryslers in the near future.

Update: While we didn’t name it after someone’s body part, the United States has a free government cell phone.

Source: Telegraph UK

Bill Maher’s latest offensive anti-Christian rant. Forgive him father, for he knows not how unfunny he is.

Has Bill Maher ever been funny? Even once in his career? Ever?

On Friday night’s HBO show, he continued his streak of mean-spirited (Oops. If you’re in a forgiving mood, please forgive our use that left wing terminology) unfunniness with this tasteless satire on Carrie Prejean.

Source: HBO via HotAir.com

15 KICK-ASS MILITARY SONGS FOR THE WORLD’S MOST KICK-ASS MILITARY

Let’s make one thing clear right up front. This is not your typical list of patriotic songs. Hardly.

Each song on this list, while not a military song, was chosen because it expresses something honest about the troops. Their heart. Their grit. Their toughness. Their tenderness. The lives they lead that ordinary mortals can never imagine.

These are songs for the troops, about the troops. These are the songs that speak to them. The songs that inspired them to enlist. The songs that remind them to re-up. The songs that get them revved up. The songs they sing. The songs they live. The songs they love. Not military songs, but hopefully they will love them.

“THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER” – TED NUGENT

We were torn. Do we include the Jimmy Hendrix instrumental version or the Ted Nugent version. Let’s see, Ted’s a patriot and Jimi was a screwed up liberal drug addict. Let’s go with Ted.

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Night of the Living Dead Taxpayer: Treasury sending “stimulus” money to dead people

Thanks to stimulus money, Democrats are hoping to sweep the zombie vote
Thanks to stimulus money, Democrats are hoping to sweep the zombie vote

Our guess is that all the “stimulus” in the world isn’t going to help these people. The Treasury began sending checks to thousands of dead people this week.

Here’s how Fox News reports it:

Antoniette Santopadre of Valley Stream was expecting a $250 stimulus check. But when her son finally opened it, they saw that the check was made out to her father, Romolo Romonini, who died in Italy 34 years ago. He’d been a U.S. citizen when he left for Italy in 1933, but only returned to the United Stated for a seven-month visit in 1969.

The Santopadres are not alone. The Social Security Administration, which sent out 52 million checks, says that some of those checks mistakenly went to dead people because the agency had no record of their death. That amounts to between 8,000 and 10,000 checks for millions of dollars.

The feds blame a rushed schedule, because all the checks have to be cut by June. The strange this is, some of the checks were made out to people — like Romonini — who were never even part of the Social Security.

Money for dead people? Considering how many of them show up on voter roles, this just looks like another case of Democrats rewarding their constituents.

Source: MyFoxNY.com via Drudge

President Obama wants Americans to sacrifice (unless they work for the federal government)

President Obama working hard to protect your tax dollars
President Obama is working hard to protect your tax dollars
Recession? What recession? Based on President Obama’s 2010 budget, federal employees are going to be fatter and happier than ever. Because the U.S. government is on a spending spree and a hiring spree.

Here’s how CBS News reports it:

Executive branch employment — 1.98 million in 2009, excluding the Postal Service and the Defense Department — is set to increase by 15.6 percent for the 2010 fiscal year. Most of that is thanks to the Census Bureau hiring 102,000 temporary workers, but not counting them still yields a net increase of 2 percent in one year.

There’s little belt-tightening in evidence in Washington, D.C.: Counting benefits, the average pay per federal worker will leap from $72,800 in 2008 to $75,419 next year.

$75,419 per year? Average? On top of the federal government’s rich retirement and health benefits?

Apparently President Obama is too busy regulating financial industry salaries to bother controlling executive branch salaries.

Source: CBSNews.com

Maria Bartiromo goes bare knuckles on union goon

CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo lived up to her “Money Honey” nickname yesterday by standing up to her union goon guest and defending the American dream.

She had two guests on her CNBC show on Thursday – Steve Malanga, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute, and Jonathan Tasini, executive director of the Labor Research Association.

Here’s how the conversation went:

BARTIROMO: So, you want us to go the European way?

TASINI: For example, there was just a great piece in the New York Times about Norway, and explaining how it has actually expanded its coverage and protection of people. I would argue that people in Norway probably live a better standard of living than most people in this, than many people in this country.

BARTIROMO: Well, the economies of Europe have been in the dumps for, for years, even before this economic slowdown even started. You think that, you think the socialist measures have anything to do with that?

TASINI: Well, what I found interesting is both Steven and both you have ignored the two points that I’ve made which is that we have the greatest inequality that we’ve had in the last hundred years, and the most important point I tried to make was productivity. Productivity in the last 30 year is soaring. That means…

BARTIROMO: But what is redistribution of wealth going to do for productivity? What is, what is the idea of the American dream, of working hard and achieving something, and knowing that all, you know, half your wealth is going to someone who didn’t do that?

Why that’s just crazy talk, Maria. The Democrats don’t want to redistribute the wealth. They want to redistribute the poverty.

Source: CNBC via NewsBusters.org

Whorish director of the Miss California pageant considers herself a role model

Whorish and hypocriticalish Shanna Moakler demonstrating the 'racy' pose for which Carrie Prejean was condemned. Click image to see a defintely NSFW Playboy video of her.
Whorish and hypocriticalish Shanna Moakler demonstrating the 'racy' pose for which Carrie Prejean was condemned. Click image to see a defintely NSFW Playboy video of her.

Donald Trump had the moxie to let Carrie Prejean keep her Miss California crown. The next day the director of the Miss California pageant Shanna Moakler “resigned” and made the following comments to UsMagazine.com

“Since the press conference yesterday, I had a chance to think about what has taken place, and I feel that at this time it is in my best interest to resign from the Miss California USA organization.”

“I cannot with a clear conscious move forward supporting and promoting the Miss Universe Organization when I no longer believe in it, or the contracts I signed committing myself as a youth,” she sneered. “I want to be a role model for young woman with high hopes of pageantry, but now feel it more important to be a role model for my children. I am sorry and hope I have not let any young supporters down but wish them the best of luck in fulfilling their dreams.”

In the world of beauty pageants, the words “role model” is apparently a synonym for “cheap, sleazy whore.”

Here are some photos and videos of Shanna Moakler, role model.

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Huffington Post wants $15,500 for an internship.
Save $1,000 and intern at IHateTheMedia.com.

Monica Lewinsky, the official spokesperson for the exciting, new IHateTheMedia.com Internship Program.
Monica Lewinsky, the official spokesperson for the exciting, new IHateTheMedia.com Internship Program.

The Huffington Post is now auctioning off a two-month internship that they modestly call a chance to “jumpstart your career in the blogosphere.” The next bid must be at least $15,500.

We say it looks like a pretty clever way to pick up a few bucks. So in the grand tradition of capitalism that the Huffington Post would never understand, we hereby offer to undercut their price and offer internships at IHateTheMedia.com for a mere $14,500.

It’s all part of a charity auction being run at CharityBuzz.com. So far ten liberal lunatics have actually bid on the internship. Additional bids will be accepted through May 28, 2009. The winning bidder can serve their internship in HuffPo’s Washington, DC or New York office.

Fact is, we really don’t need any interns, but this looks like a pretty sweet money making scheme. We get a gaggle of interns paying us $14,500 every two or three months while we spend the day eating bonbons.

Please send your checks to IHateTheMedia.com, PO Box 13309, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406-3309.

Ahhh, life is good.

Source: Huffington Post via Neatorama.com

Obamanomics: Elevating the circle jerk to an art form

obamanomics, copyright IHateTheMedia.com

Bad news for American workers and taxpayers. That auto bailout isn’t quite working the way they hoped it would.

According to a leaked document, GM plans to sell Chinese-manufactured cars to American consumers as soon as 2011.

Here’s how Fox News reports it:

General Motors is currently the best-selling foreign automaker in China, and Buick is number one brand overall, part of the reason that the nameplate was saved during a recent round of cuts that included the elimination of Pontiac. As an example of the growing influence of that marketplace on the company, the interior of the upcoming replacement for the Buick LaCrosse sedan was designed at a GM studio in Shanghai.

According to the report, GM plans to sell nearly 18,000 Chinese-made vehicles in the US in 2011, with that number rising to over 50,000 by 2014.

The chart above shows exactly what a circle jerk this is.

China buys US government debt. The US government uses that money to bailout General Motors. General Motors manufactures cars in China which it then sells in the United States. Americans buy those cars which gives GM the money to pay back the government which then pays back China.

The end result: The Chinese get the jobs. The Chinese get the money. And the only thing Americans get is the shaft.

Source: Fox News via BluegrassPundit.com

Oprah Winfrey flaunts her wealth in college commencement address

Oprah's rich, you're not. End of discussion.
Oprah's rich, you're not. End of discussion.
Oprah made the commencement address at Duke University yesterday. She gave an address for which any conservative would have been skewered by the liberal press:

“It’s great to have a nice home. It’s great to have nice homes! It’s great to have a nice home that just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara,” she told the students. “It’s great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn’t great is lying to you.”

Sure, she went on to say “You haven’t completed the circle of success until you help someone else move to a higher ground and get to a better place.” Blah, blah, blah.

The Duke graduates were terribly disappointed with Oprah’s address. When she started talking about helping someone else, they thought she was going to give away free cars to everyone in the audience again.

Sorry, Duke graduates. Since Oprah didn’t come through with a freebie, it looks like you’ll have to move to Massachusetts to get that free car.

Source: Wall Street Journal

EPA blows smoke, White House memo says CO2 isn’t harmful, but regulating it is.

As anyone who took high school science knows carbon dioxide (CO2) is what people and animals exhale and plants “inhale”.

Yet environmental zealots call it a “greenhouse gas” to make it sound harmful.

What would be really harmful, though, is if the Environmental Protection Agency starts regulating CO2. Well, hang on to your wallet, Money Bags, because that’s exactly what they’re considering.

Last month, the EPA issued a proposed finding that greenhouse gases “endanger public health and welfare within the meaning of the Clean Air Act.”

But now an internal White House memo reveals glimpses of sanity within the administration. A memo sent by the Office of Management and Budget to the EPA says that greenhouse gasses have “no demonstrated direct health effects” but that regulation “is likely to have serious economic consequences.”

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson was confronted about the memo at a Senate hearing. Watch how she tap-dances around the question, misrepresents the Supreme Court’s ruling (as if the Supreme Court makes laws) and downplays her agency’s finding, saying it was preliminary and “might not” lead to regulations. But if they did decide to start regulating CO2, they’d “make regulations smartly.”

God help us. If anyone’s responsible for global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions, it’s bureaucratic windbags.

Source: Wall Street Journal

Biden says economy’s improving, data says something else

Joe Biden indicating that the economy is ten times more socialist than ever
Joe Biden indicating that the economy is ten times more socialist than ever

Honesty-challenged Vice President Joe Biden told rosy tales of an economic recovery on Wednesday. But even the liberal Assocated Press says the facts tell another story:

It is not disputed that Washington is spending historic amounts of money at a rate far faster than normal. Workers are getting tax breaks, Washington is picking up a greater share of state Medicaid costs and road construction projects are beginning.

Even Recovery.gov, the Web site that has yet to live up to its billing as a one-stop way to track every penny, offers more information than typical government programs, and faster.

But the effect of that spending is less clear. Many of the claims the White House is making are based on anecdotes selected to fit the Obama administration’s message. For instance, the report cites a newspaper article about workers being rehired at a factory in Chicago. That account is true, but is no more an accurate snapshot of the nation’s economy than a story, not cited in the report, about a Roanoke, Va., railcar factory closing.

Capturing the full effect of the stimulus at this early stage is difficult, but the administration has set high bars for success. In championing those successes, however, the White House plays a little loose with the facts.

You can see the specifics of the Associate Press fact check here.

Joe Biden playing a little loose with the facts? We are shocked that the Associated Press would make such a baseless accusation. Shocked, we tell you.

Source: Associated Press

Palin gives Obama a lesson in the free market economy. Piper Palin, that is.

We don't know if Piper Palin is violating any health codes, but she's definitely obeying the law of supply and demand
We don't know if Piper Palin is violating any health codes, but she's definitely obeying the law of supply and demand
Up in the wilds of Juneau, Alaska Sarah Palin’s eight year old daughter Piper has struck a blow against President Obama’s socialist agenda.

Since mom Sarah Palin has risen to national prominence, tour companies have begun running busses through the neighborhood where the governor’s mansion is located. Carloads of tourists are flooding the neighborhood, too.

Noticing the increased traffic through her neighborhood, the entrepreneurial eight year old set up a lemonade stand in front of the mansion and has begun selling the tart treat to tourists. The budding entrepreneur seems to understand capitalism and how the free market works than the entire Obama administration.

Piper Palin better watch out.

Next thing you know, the FDA will swoop in and tell her she’s violating health standards. The IRS will want to see her sales records. Tim Geithner will force her to take TARP funds. And President Obama will force her out of the lemonade stand she founded and turn it over to his allies in the United Lemonworkers Union.

Source: Anchorage Daily News

Congratulations to North Korea. They’ve reduced their carbon footprint to an acceptable level.

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This is a satellite photo of the Korean Peninsula. Global warming fanatics will probably look at it, wring their hands and wonder why those capitalist, environmental rapists in South Korea can’t be more like their socialist brothers north of the 38th Parallel.

Look how admirable the people of North Korea are, they’d say. They don’t eat up the world’s dwindling natural resources by burning needless electricity generated by unnecessary power plants. They don’t pollute the skies. They don’t make sea levels rise. And they don’t kill any damn polar bears.

On the other hand, global warming realists know the only way to reduce humanity’s so-called carbon footprint to what the greens consider an acceptable level is to flip off every light, shut down every industrial plant, stop the production of food, and return to the sort of pre-industrial conditions that plague the people of the People’s Republic.

We just hope the American people see the light before there are no more lights left to see.

Source: PlanetGore

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