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GE shareholders erupt in anger over MSNBC’s leftwing bias

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GE shareholders gather outside MSNBC's headquarters. Keith Olbermann cowers in fear inside.
GE shareholders gather outside MSNBC's headquarters. Keith Olbermann cowers in fear inside.

Anger erupted at GE’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday. “The crowd was angry with MSNBC because of its leftward tilt,” one person observed. “Some former employees said they were embarrassed by it.”

The complaints came hot and heavy. During the question-and-answer period, shareholders repeatedly asked executives about political views expressed on MSNBC and CNBC.

They were pissed about the report that GE honcho Jeff Immelt and NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker reportedly held a dinner meeting at which they told top CNBC executives and and on-air talent to take it easy on President Obama.

They were steamed that MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann didn’t challenge of lunatic Janeane Garofalo’s lunatic ramblings in an interview last week.

It went on and on. The angry questioners refused to be silenced. GE finally resorted to shutting off their microphones, which angered them even more.

“My biggest surprise was the open hostility to MSNBC,” noted one shareholder. “It was noticeable and loud. I don’t remember any of this going on last year.”

A few weeks ago, President Obama told a group of executives, “My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”

Looks like President Obama was right about the pitchforks. But this isn’t quite the way he had envisioned them being used.

Source: HollywoodReporter.com

UPDATE: AUDIO TRACK OF CROWD BOOS WHEN GE CEO’S DEFENDS MSNBC

“O’Reilly Factor” producer Jesse Watters attended Wednesday’s annual GE shareholder meeting as both a GE shareholder and producer of “The O’ReillyFactor.”

He asked asked GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt if Janeane Garofalo’s comments on MSNBC qualified as hate speech.

The other shareholders booed the CEO’s answer.

Source: FoxNation.com

Mia Farrow to begin hunger strike for Darfur

mia_farrow “On April 27th I will begin a fast of water only in solidarity with the people of Darfur and as a personal expression of outrage at a world that is somehow able to stand by and watch innocent men, women and children needlessly die of starvation, thirst and disease.”

We’re surprised to learn Farrow’s beginning a hunger strike. But only because we thought she’d always been on one.

Source: Huffington Post

Wimpy Americans: interrogators accused of torturing terrorist “with an insect”

If the caterpillar torture technique didn't work, inhumane American interrogators were prepared to move on to the dreaded ladybug torture.
If the caterpillar torture technique didn't work, inhumane American interrogators were prepared to move on to the dreaded ladybug torture.

Remember how the media was so upset about the infamous “panties on the head” torture technique employed at Abu Ghraib? Well, now ABC News has it collective (and collectivist) panties in a wad about a completely different, but equally wimpy torture technique.

“Tonight, secret memos,” ABC News’ Charles Gibson intoned, “new documents reveal in vivid detail just how far the Bush administration went in interrogating terror suspects, using insects, confinement boxes, water-boards and more.”

“Even some congressional officials who had the highest security clearances were surprised by some of the details today,” George Stephanopoulos added, “especially that detail about the fact that (Abu) Zubayda was tortured with an insect in a confinement box.”

Ahhh, but ABC left out one important detail.

“In the case of al-Qaeda figure Abu Zubaydah, who feared insects,” Pete Williams noted on NBC News, “interrogators were given permission to put a harmless one like a caterpillar in a box in which he was confined, but that technique was never used.”

Ironic, isn’t it, that vermin should be afraid of insects.

Source: ABC and NBC via NewsBusters

California Sen Feinstein doesn’t try to hide her corruption, husband cashes in on financial crisis

We'd hide our faces, too, if we were as corrupt as California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein
We'd hide our faces, too, if we were as corrupt as California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein

California Democrat Senator Diane Feinstein was wealthy when she came to the senate. And thanks to the way she’s blatantly directed federal funds to her husband’s many businesses, she’s become far wealthier.

Most of the media buries this story as deeply as they buried her past corruption. But here’s how the Washington Times and Fox News describe her latest personal money grab:

On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms, the Washington Times reported on Tuesday. Continue reading “California Sen Feinstein doesn’t try to hide her corruption, husband cashes in on financial crisis”

Associated Press attacks Bobby Jindal’s travel expenses even though they’re not illegal

When didn't Bobby Jindal do anything illegal and when didn't he do it. The AP demands to know.
When didn't Bobby Jindal do anything illegal and when didn't he do it. The AP demands to know.

The libs must be worried about Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. They sent the attack dog Associated Press out to do a hit piece about the popular Republican’s travel expenses.

Please allow us to save you some time. Just review the first three paragraphs and the last four paragraphs and ignore the nine meaningless ones in between. Here’s the AP’s opening:
Continue reading “Associated Press attacks Bobby Jindal’s travel expenses even though they’re not illegal”

Is Miss California being recruited by Fox News?
If not, why not?

Carrie Prejean, the California beauty who would have won the Miss USA title had it not been for the militant gay egomaniac Perez Hilton, showed up on Neil Cavuto’s Fox program on Tuesday.

She was fabulous. Warm. Gracious. Intelligent. Well-spoken. Amazingly, she appears to genuinely hold no ill will toward Perez Hilton. And she seems to have all the right points of view to qualify for a job at Fox News.

Here’s one brief exchange between Cavuto and Parjean.

Cavuto: (wondering how she would have answered the question posed to Miss Arizona) What do you think of the bailouts?
Carrie: I don’t feel that taxpayers’ money should be used for bailing out companies. I don’t. Do I agree that they should be used for welfare? No. I don’t.

But then Cavuto got the heart of the matter – Prejean’s plans for the future:

Cavuto: What do you want to be?
Carrie: You know, I’m not sure. I’m continuing my modeling career and I’m not sure how far that’s going to lead me. Maybe get into politics, you never know.
Cavuto: You know, half of ‘em want to get into TV news.
Carrie: No, I don’t think I want to get into that. Definitely not. Maybe motivational speaking.
Cavuto: (Whistles) Whew. Breathe a sigh of relief there. OK, good. Because I don’t need the competition. I just want to avoid that.
Carrie: I know.

Carrie Prejean. Smarter than Perez Hilton. More attractive than Paris Hilton. And vice versa, too.

Source: Fox News via HotAir.com

Video: Reporter gets waterboarded for his story, doesn’t like it

You’ve read a lot about waterboarding. You’ve heard a lot about waterboarding. But have you ever seen someone actually waterboarded?

We hadn’t until we saw this video. Playboy reporter Mike Guy got the unenviable assignment to experience waterboarding personally, which probably makes him the first guy who ever considered working for Playboy to be torture.

Turns out waterboarding is nothing like we expected and it’s definitely nothing like tough talking Mike Guy expected.

Source: Playboy via HotAir.com

Congressman Peter King: Napolitano won’t call
al Qaeda terrorists, but will call veterans terrorists

Republic Rep. Peter King appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday and said some things that are sure to land him in hot water with the Obama administration. And Muslim extremists, too.

“Janet Napolitano testified before the Homeland Security Committee a few weeks ago and never once used the word terrorism. Nowhere in her statement was the word terrorism. When I questioned her about that she basically said she didn’t want to use the word terrorism. She was talking about al Qaeda or bin Laden. We cannot use the word terrorism. They made a point of saying this just generates fear, it generates hysteria and we shouldn’t use the word terrorist.” Continue reading “Congressman Peter King: Napolitano won’t call
al Qaeda terrorists, but will call veterans terrorists”

Obama to cut staggering deficit by purchasing office supplies in bulk

The Obama administration is about to begin saving money in a big, big way.
The Obama administration is about to begin saving money in a big, big way.

Good news. President Obama’s soaring, staggering, stunning deficit will soon be a mere pittance.

All because the President has announced that the Department of Homeland Security will soon begin buying office supplies in bulk.

In an effort to hurry along the process, we stopped by our local CostCo yesterday and signed up the President. So in addition to office supplies, every government agency will soon buy everything in bulk. Aircraft carriers by the dozens, dark blue FBI suits by the rackful, teleprompters by the truckload.

We have one other genius idea:

Costco gives away free food samples every day at lunch. Today we had their vegetarian lasagna, beef jerky, crab on cracker, and apple juice. They were all delicious.

Instead of giving people food stamps, give them CostCo membership cards. Then instruct them to head for CostCo at lunchtime to gorge themselves on free samples.

The savings will dwarf whatever Janet Napolitano saves on office supplies.

Get Tim Robbins a valium, Showtime passes on his pharmaceutical drama

Bull Durham. From back in the days when Robbins made <s>non-political</s> good movies.
Bull Durham. From back in the days when Robbins made non-political good movies.

“Showtime on Friday passed on Tim Robbins’ well-regarded pharmaceutical-drama pilot ‘Possible Side Effects.’”

That’s how Reuters announced the death of Robbins’ latest project.

The series was to be written and directed by Oscar winner Robbins. He had already signed top talent including Ellen Burstyn. Insiders say the pilot tested well and was considered a sure thing for Showtime’s schedule.

Of course, liberal conspiracy theorists immediately concluded that the project was killed because of its subject matter. “Possible Side Effects” takes a caustic look at the pharmaceutical drug industry.

“Like several other pilots rejected by Showtime, ‘Side Effects’ might be shopped elsewhere,” Reuters said.

Maybe Robbins should take it over to Current TV. Al Gore’s network is pretty desperate. They’ll run damn near anything.

Source: Reuters.com

Headline of the Day
“Waterboarding Used on 9/11 Mastermind 183 Times”

waterboarding2Wikipedia says 2,998 people died in the terrorist attacks on 9/11. So we’d say Khalid Shaikh Mohammed still owes us at least another 2,815 waterboarding sessions.

Time to pay up, Khalid.

Source: FoxNews.com

Congressional Black Caucus to be renamed Congressional Black Circus

Unidentified member of the Congressional Black Circus on his way to the U.N. Racism Conference
Unidentified member of the Congressional Black Circus on his way to the U.N. Racism Conference
The President of the United States is a former member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Yet he has remained strangely slient regarding the group’s recent efforts to become the biggest circus this side of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey.

First, the group made a high-profile visit to Cuba last month. Members of the Caucus embarrassed themselves by acting aged dictator Fidel Castro’s rock ‘n roll groupies.

Now they’ve taken Obama to task for doing something right — boycotting the UN racism conference, the follow-up to a 2001 confab that defined Zionism as racism. The conference was also boycotted by Israel, Canada, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands and Australia.

The Telegraph UK describes it this way: “Only the United Nations could hold an ‘anti-racism’ conference that is actually a celebration of anti-Semitism featuring genocidal maniacs like Iranian president and holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. World leaders are already gathering for the Durban Review Conference in Geneva to be held from April 20-24, one of the biggest hate fests on the planet, wasting millions of dollars.”

Members of the Congressional Black Circus attended the hatefest on their own. But we suspect the American taxpayers will somehow end up footing the bill.

It’s called “World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.”

Hey, at least they left out “Tea Parties.”

Source: New York Daily News

Americans cooling on Al Gore’s global warming theory, only one third agree

Antarctic ice melting at unprecedented rate due to steam coming out of Al Gore's ears.
Antarctic ice melting at unprecedented rate due to steam coming out of Al Gore's ears.

Al Gore is not going to like the latest Rasmussen Report on global warming. No, he’s not going to like it at all.

A year ago, 47% of likely American voters thought man was the primary cause of global warming. This year just 34% agree while 48% say climate change is the result of long-term planetary trends. 7% blame “something else.” 11% just aren’t sure. It’s the worst repudiation of Gore’s unscientific theory to date.

As you might expect, 51% of knee jerk Democrats agree with Gore that man is to blame. Luckily, 66% of Republicans and 47% independents disagree.

Gore has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an ad campaign to convince the American people that his global warming hogwash is true, but the public’s not buying it. Kind of like his presidential campaign. Except he actually won that vote.

Source: RasmussenReports.com

Miss California defends herself on the Today Show

Miss California Carrie Prejean, who most agree lost the Miss USA 2009 title Sunday Night because, in response to judge Perez Hilton’s question on gay marriage, claimed that marriage should only be between a man and a woman, defended herself on The Today Show this morning. Matt Lauer gave her a chance to revise her answer. No revision necessary, she says:

“The way that I answered might have been offensive … but for me, it was being biblically correct.”

Now this is a strong woman. More of a woman than Ms. Perez Hilton can ever hope to be.

Robert Gibbs talks nonsense, reporters don’t like it

Press secretary Robert Gibbs tried to tap dance around a question yesterday, but in a major surprise, the press didn’t let him get away with it.

AP reporter Jennifer Loven and ABC’s Jake Tapper pressed Gibbs to explain why President Obama bragged about saving $100 million in his proposed budget when he had downplayed $8 billion in earmark spending several weeks ago.

It wasn’t pretty. Gibbs eventually adopted the strategy of talking and talking and talking until everyone forgot what the question was.

Source: ABC News via RealClearPolitics.com

Quote of the Day

“In the first three months of the year, 1,395 Pakistanis were killed in 1,842 terrorist attacks. At that rate Pakistan’s terror death toll will overtake the toll from Hurricane Katrina by the end of April. By the end of 2009, we could be looking at double the toll from the World Trade Center attacks.

“It’s probably something to do with Presbyterians.”

Source: Tim Blair, Sydney Daily Telegraph

Obama and Chavez are now bros

hugo_chavez2 Just last month in Doha, Venezuelan President and Fidel Castro wannabe Hugo Chavez called the U.S. “the great guilty one, the great Satan.”

Chavez also called President Obama “ignorant.” Now Obama has proven Chavez’ point, smiling and giving Chavez the “bro” handshake.

Dude, where’s my country?

Source: Times UK

Miss California loses Miss USA title because she doesn’t believe in gay marriage

For some unknown reason, Donald Trump invited offensive and flamboyantly gay Hollywood blogger Perez Hilton to be a judge at the Miss USA pageant last night. He probably won’t be invited back.

It was bad enough that his question to Miss California was, “Vermont recently became the 4th state to legalize same sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?”

She gave a well-reasoned, well-spoken answer. We always thought that was the basis on which contestants were judged in the question and answer segment. Apparently not. Perez Hilton judged the content of her answer and came to the conclusion that it didn’t match his beliefs.

Miss California, who had already won the swimsuit and evening gown portions of the competition, lost the crown to Miss North Carolina when she had the nerve to express herself honestly:

“In my country, in my family, I think that I believe a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there, but that’s how I was raised.”

Hilton’s face froze tighter than Nancy Pelosi’s after a botox injection. As soon as the competition was over, he rushed back to his hotel room and posted this video blog to his followers.

“Miss California lost not because she doesn’t believe in gay marriage. Miss California lost because she was a dumb bitch.” He continued, “If that girl would have won Miss USA, I would have gone up on stage, I shit you not, I would have gone up on stage, grabbed that tiara off her head, and run out the door. And then I would have probably been arrested, but so what.”

It might not be much consolation, but we have a tiara here and we’d like to present it to Miss California and officially name her “Miss IHateTheMedia.com.”

Source: PerezHilton.com

Life in Iran: 1979 versus 2009

Young, Westernized Iranian women in 1979.
Young, Westernized Iranian women in 1979.

If you weren’t around before 1979, you may think the people of Iran have always been 13th century lunatics.

Not so.

These two photos perfectly demonstrate the difference between the theocratic Iran of today and the Iran of 30 years ago that was the most westernized country in the middle east. (You can see dozens of other photos of surprisingly Westernized, pre-secular Iran here).

Iranian Akhbar Ganji describes the 1979 Iranian revolution as an event that “promised us heaven, but… created a hell on earth.”

Young Iranian women in 2009. Literally a completely different picture.
Young Iranian women in 2009. Literally a completely different picture.
On the other hand, well-known Iranian nutcase Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says today’s Iran is “a perfect model of splendid, humane, and divine life… for all the peoples of the world.”

Not for the peoples at IHateTheMedia.com. We consider this a preview of what our Islamo-Fascist friends have in mind for the rest of the world. Including America.

Source: FunnyToGo.com via Leenks.com

Daily Show uses deceptive editing in attempt to embarrass Fox News

Cody Williard, host of Fox Business News’ Happy Hour, is not your average business news reporter. Think of him as Rick Santelli’s geeky younger brother. But that genetic-ish link to Santelli means he speaks up when he thinks he’s been wronged.

Cody saw Jon Stewart use a little deceptive editing to make it appear that Williard had said something different than what he actually said. So Williard fought back:

“So I think you guys know I try to keep it pretty real with you around here on Happy Hour, continually calling out and calling on you to fight the Republican and Democrat fascists – yes fascist regime. Jon Stewart last night said I dropped the F-bomb on Obama. It wasn’t just on Obama, it was on Obama, Bush and everyone.”

Watch it for yourself to see just how deceptive Stewart’s editing was.

Source: Breitbart.tv

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