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Jackie Chan not sure if freedom is good, says Chinese people need to be controlled

Too many blows to the head = too much freedom.
Too many blows to the head = too much freedom.
Poor Jackie Chan. We now have proof that the Hong Kong movie star has taken too many blows to the head.

Chan made the following moronic comments while taking part in a panel discussion before an audience of Chinese business people.

“I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not,” the actor said. “I’m really confused now. If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic.”

“I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled,” he added. “If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.”

This sounds very strange coming from a guy who’s worked hard and made millions of dollars. But we think we’ve figured it out.

There is no Jackie Chan. It’s really just Margaret Cho in drag.

source: Associated Press via Earthlink

Birth of a controversy: Chinese pissed off at Mao condom ad

To the Chinese, this condom ad is pregnant with meaning.
To the Chinese, this condom ad is pregnant with meaning.
China’s official media protested a German condom ad that shows revolutionary leader Mao Zedong as a sperm cell. The campaign includes other ads featuring Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.

The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, devoted a full page to the controversy and demanded that the condom company apologize to China.

Grey Worldwide, one of the world’s largest ad agencies, created the safe sex ad for Doc Morris Pharmacies. They’ve reportedly sent a letter of apology to the Chinese consulate in Frankfurt.

Not all Chinese seem quite so angry, though. “I am a former worker who is now 70,” said one comment on the sina.com website. “I have thought about it a lot and I still cannot understand why these people defend Mao so strongly.”

He is survived by his wife, three children and seven grandchildren (all boys).

Source: Breitbart.com

Happy birthday: Harry Reid’s greatest stupidity is now two years old.

Can someone explain why Harry Reid is the leader of the United States Senate? For God’s sake, man, is this really what passes for a leader in today’s America?

Nevertheless, this Caspar Milquetoast of a man decided two years ago today that the war in Iraq was lost. He announced it to the world.

If you’re still in an explaining kind of mood, can someone please explain why this clip wasn’t shown time after time after time on every TV network and independent station in America during the last election?

Yes, we hate the media.

60-year old Saudi man forbidden to have sex
with his 8-year old wife

The President of the United States bowing to the King of a country that allows 60-year old men to marry girls younger than his daughters Malia and Sasha.
The President of the United States bowing to the King of a country that allows 60-year old men to marry girls younger than his daughters Malia and Sasha.
Great news from Saudi Arabia. Really great news. A Saudi court has ruled that a 60-year old Saudi man cannot have sex with his 8-year old wife.

Ahhh, but don’t break out the champagne quite yet. The court didn’t annul the marriage nor condemn the marriage nor even raise an eyebrow over the marriage. It just said the old geezer couldn’t violate the girl until she reached puberty.

Justice Minister Muhammad Issa said he wanted to end to the “arbitrary” way in which Saudi parents marry off underage girls. But he said nothing about outlawing the practice. Not a word.

This brings up a few questions for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

Is this one of those international laws you want to use as precedent in American law? If you’re not following the United States Constitution, how do you determine which international laws to follow and which ones to ignore? Will your choices as “arbitrary” as those of the Saudi judge? And finally, are you really as friggin’ uninformed and un-American as you appear to be?

Just wondering.

Source: BBC

Report says 2008 deadliest year for aid workers, omits that Muslims did most of the killing

Merry band of Islamic Somalian Robin Hoods preparing to steal from the rich, give to the poor, and slaughter damn near anyone who crosses their path.
Merry band of Islamic Somalian Robin Hoods preparing to steal from the rich, give to the poor, and slaughter damn near anyone who crosses their path.

If you’re an aid worker, consider yourself lucky that you got out of 2008 alive. Reuters reports that last year was the deadliest ever for aid workers. But the wire service left something very important out of its report – who did the killing?

Here’s how CreepingSharia.com revealed what Reuters didn’t or wouldn’t or dasn’t:

al-Reuters reports that 2008 was the deadliest year on record for aid workers and that three countries were responsible for most of the violence. What Reuters fails to mention is what those three countries – Somalia, Afghanistan, and Sudan – have in common that contributed to the killings: Islam.

In fact, the words Islam, Muslim, jihad, and sharia – all significant factors in the record number of aid worker deaths – are never mentioned by al-Reuters, who claims the deaths are an alarming trend.

Unfortunate? Absolutely. Disgusting? Without doubt. Alarming? Not really. Anyone paying any attention at all could tell you jihadists are killing on a regular basis. The alarming trend is not the killings but the refusal of Western governments and the mass media to acknowledge and report on the jihadists and ideology behind the killing. Not to mention policies forbidding use of those terms.

What’s that? There were no bands of crazed 13th century Christians raping and pillaging anywhere in the world? No conservatives slaughtering in the name of God? And no beheadings by disgruntled Republicans?

This is going to come as a big surprise to the Department of Homeland Security.

Source: Reuters via Creeping Sharia

Joe the Plumber lays pipe on Bill Maher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EACX65yggPQ

Six months ago Joe the Plumber was just Joe the plumber. Then Barack Obama knocked on his door, quickly followed by opportunity knocking on his door.

Love Joe or hate Joe, you have to give the guy credit. He walked into the lion’s den (otherwise known as Bill Maher’s show on HBO) and held his own.

Maher, of course, does everything he can to make Joe look like a bonehead, but Joe gave as good as he got. Not bad for a guy who was unclogging drains not too long ago.

Source: BigHollywood.com

50 Things Vanishing from America

cash_register Believe it or not, democracy and capitalism aren’t on the list. Maybe next year.

We know this doesn’t really have much to do with media, but it does take us back to a sweeter, gentler, happier time in America. (Are you ready for our tenuous media connection? Because here it comes) You know, those times the media tells us were angry, racist, misogynist, homophobic times. Oh, wait. They’re still telling us that.

So what the hell, here’s number twenty-three:

Cash Registers That Make a Ka-Ching Sound

Ka-ching — it’s a synonym for making money — the sound of the cash register ringing up a sale. Lots of people still say it, but some of them don’t know its origins because they have never heard the real thing. Cash registers that go “ka-ching” have been replaced by silent computers or self-checkout machines whose nasal artificial voices annoy more than help when they whine, “Don’t forget to take your change.”

Check out the entire list, you angry, racist, misogynist, homophobe.

Source: WalletPop.com

First Family on welfare: Obamas were paid $201,913 for not working in 2008

200 grand for not working. Where do we sign up?
200 grand for not working. Where do we sign up?

No president has ever understood the welfare system better than Barack Obama. Because somehow, our new President and his missus managed to bring home $201,913 for jobs they didn’t perform.

Lest we be accused of being inaccurate, let’s admit that President Obama did spend about 12 minutes doing the actual work of a United Sates Senator in 2008. He showed up to cast a vote or two when he was campaigning somewhere near Washington, DC. For that Herculean effort, he was paid $139,204.

But Michelle, well, that’s a different story. She took home $62,709 from the University of Chicago Hospitals. To repeat, she didn’t work a lick, but still took home $62,709. That’s not bad work if you can get it.

In fact, after she resigned her position, her job was eliminated. I’m sure Michelle would say it was eliminated because she couldn’t be replaced. But it’s much more likely that the job was eliminated because it wasn’t a real job in the first place.

So on one hand, these two got paid for work they didn’t do. And on the other hand, they see nothing wrong with increasing your taxes for the work you did do.

It all starts to make sense now.

Source: Associated Press via Sweetness And Light, Bluegrass Pundit

Another sign of the apocolypse: TV Land premieres “cougar” reality dating show

"Hey, Jimmy, was that your mom I saw whoring herself out for a bunch of young guys on TV Land last night?"
"Hey, Jimmy, was that your mom I saw whoring herself out for a bunch of young guys on TV Land last night?"

If you thought taxes were the worst thing to happen on April 15, think again.

TV Land premiered a new reality dating show called “The Cougar,” in which a 40-year old single mother of four searches for a younger man. A much younger man.

In case you aren’t familiar with the term, the Urban Dictionary defines a cougar as “A 35+ year old female who is on the ‘hunt’ for a much younger, energetic, willing-to-do-anything male. The cougar can frequently be seen in a padded bra, cleavage exposed, propped up against a swanky bar in San Francisco (or other cities) waiting, watching, calculating; gearing up to sink her claws into an innocent young and strapping buck who happens to cross her path.”

Twenty single men will compete to win the affections of this woman who’s twice their age. Week by week, young studs will be eliminated as a result of various weekly challenges.

“The Cougar” is produced by the same geniuses who brought you “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette.”

The company is reportedly exploring additional dating shows for gay midget quadriplegics, left-handed Irish transsexuals, and hermaphrodites named Ann and Andy. Stay tuned for more information after these words from our sponsor.

Source: CultureAndMediaInstitute.org

Militant Islamic spokesman says, “Sharia doesn’t permit us to lay down arms.” We ask, will American Muslims be only ones allowed to carry guns someday?

Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security posse
Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security posse

Another story the media just conveniently overlooks in its efforts to be politically correct:

Those darn moderate Taliban factions with whom President Obama wants to negotiate are already causing problems in Pakistan.

Here’s how the ANI news agency reports the story:

Pakistani’s Taliban will not lay down heir arms in a northwestern valley as part of a deal that included the introduction of Sharia law but will take their struggle’ to new areas, a militant spokesman said today.

“Sharia doesn’t permit us to lay down arms,” Muslim Khan said by telephone. “If a government, either in Pakistan or Afghanistan, continues anti-Muslim policies, it’s out of the question that Taliban lay down their arms.”

Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, under pressure from conservatives, signed a regulation on Monday imposing sharia law in the Swat valley to end Taliban violence.

The strategy of appeasement has alarmed US officials, while critics say the government has demonstrated a lack of capacity nd will to fight the Taliban and al Qaeda.

According to Dawn, details of the deal have not been made public but government officials backing the pact have said part of it as that militants would give up their arms.

But a Pakistani Taliban spokesman in the scenic valley, a one-time tourist destination 125 km northwest of Islamabad, said they would be keeping their guns.

He said “When we achieve our goal at one place, there are other areas where we need to struggle for it.”

Based on this, we can foresee the day when American Muslims can have guns for religious reasons, but other Americans can’t have them for legal reasons.

That, of course, will allow the IslamoFascists to help Homeland Security hunt down rightwing extremists.

Source: Yuvaz.com

Chicago Democrat calls tax protests shameful, neglects to mention her convicted tax-cheat husband

Jan Schakowsky thinks tax protesters are despicable. Oh, did she mention that her husband plead guilty to tax fraud. Slipped her mind.
Jan Schakowsky thinks tax protesters are despicable. Oh, did she mention that her husband plead guilty to tax fraud. Slipped her mind.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill., duh) took time out of her busy tax-and-spend schedule to denounce the Tea Party protests as “despicable” and shameful.”

In a statement, Schakowsky parroted Democratic/CNN talking points that the Tea Parties were “an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans.”

“It’s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt,” she said. “Not a single American household or business will be taxed at a higher rate this year. Made to look like a grassroots uprising, this is an Obama bashing party promoted by corporate interests, as well as Republican lobbyists and politicians.”

What her statement failed to mention was that her husband, lobbyist Robert Creamer, pled guilty to bank fraud and tax cheating in 2005. She also signed off on their tax returns.

If this is the most ethical and transparent congress in history, we can’t imagine what the most corrupt would be like.

Source: TheHill.com

Black Chamber of Commerce leader says Kennedy’s health care ideas “just don’t work”

The problem with liberals is that most of them don’t live in the real world. Not even in the same neighborhood. Hair-brained schemes hatched in the hallowed halls of academe don’t work any more than the professors who concoct them.

Then there’s Harry Alford, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, someone with both feet planted squarely in the real world. Here’s what Alford had to say about lib healthcare concepts:

“Yeah, I love Ted Kennedy. I love what he stands for, but he has come out over the years with some ideas that I think just don’t work. I remember his office called me and they wanted to – any business that had over 100 employers would have to have medical insurance for all the employees. And he was aiming this at fast food chains. And I said, all the McDonald’s and Burger King owners are going to do is make sure he doesn’t have 100 employees because he can’t afford it. You can’t make him do this. They’ll be fewer jobs.”

Fewer jobs? Perfect. That would allow the libs to test some of their equally ineffective job creation theories.

Source: CNSnews.com

Actress and singer Rosario Dawson calls Obama “vagina friendly”

Rosario Dawson - actress, singer, political scientist, vagina expert
Rosario Dawson - actress, singer, political scientist, vagina expert
The Cult of Obama has taken perhaps its most bizarre twist. Yeah, bizarre. That’s the right word.

Lousy actress and poor singer Rosario Dawson has given President Obama that would only be considered a compliment in the twisted world of Hollywood. She says his administration is very “vagina friendly.”

The D.C. Examiner reports it like this:

Rosario Dawson has been a vocal supporter of President Barack Obama’s policies, appearing both at the Democratic National Convention and the “We Are One” concert, but Tuesday, she expressed a new reason why she loves our President.

“I feel like we have a very vagina-friendly administration,” Dawson said, speaking at the first Men Can Stop Rape conference at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill.

She didn’t elaborate on how the administration was “friendly,” but we presume she meant his work that supports the speech she gave about preventing sexual violence against women. She received a standing ovation.

We think that last line was a typo. It was supposed to have said, “She received a standing ovulation.”

Source: D.C. Examiner via BluegrassPundit

Memo to the lovely and gracious Janeane Garofalo:

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To: Janeane Garofalo
From: An outraged conservative
Re: Republican racists
Date: April 17, 2009

Earlier today we published the story Angry activist, actress Janeane Garofalo announces that you’re a racist where she told Keith Olbermann that tax protesters are nothing but a bunch of racist white power wackos.

Well, Janeane, here’s one of those racist Republicans at a Tea Party in Santa Ana, California, right in the heart of whitebread Orange County.

Oh, wait. That woman appears to be black. A black woman had the nerve to tweak Barack Obama’s America-bashing overseas statements on one side of her sign, then tweak Michelle Obama’s ’08 campaign comment on the other (“For the first time in my adult life I’m proud of my country”).

Being in Orange County, she probably isn’t authentically black. But take our word for it, she is authentically outraged.

Update: For some reason our Digg It button not working in this article. You can Digg it here. That is, if you want to send Garofalo the memo.

“High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens says, “I carry a Taser”

Vanessa Hudgens makes a shocking announcement.
Vanessa Hudgens makes a shocking announcement.
The Obama administration may be weak on defense, but movie star Vanessa Hudgens isn’t. She just revealed that she is armed and dangerous.

“I keep a Taser in my purse for self-defense,” Hudgens said, “I’m moving into a house by myself, and it’s scary.

Let us say something to Vanessa just for the record:

You don’t need the Taser. And you didn’t need the restraining order. You know we are married in the eyes of Valdor the All-Powerful. We are destined to be together. Now put down the Taser, Vanessa. Put down the Taser. Owwwww. That wasn’t really necessary.

Source: The Sun UK

Tea Party coverage leads to surge in Fox ratings

April 15, 2009 (Tea Party Night) Cable News RatingsEveryone’s ratings were up on the night of the Tea Parties, but the ratings at Fox were in the stratosphere. They can’t even see MSNBC in their rear view mirror anymore.

The Comedy Network’s Daily Show and Colbert climbed into the top ten at the expense of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’S Larry King.

The ratings for Ed Schultz’ EdShow were so abysmal that MSNBC may rename it “Weekday at Bernie’s.” And all that talk about “teabagging” caused Anderson Cooper to suck. Or maybe we should have said his ratings sucked. Yeah, that’s what we should have said.

Source: Neilsen Media Research via Media Bistro

Angry activist, actress Janeane Garofalo announces that you’re a racist

Janeane Garofalo and Keith Olbermann are complete opposites. She’s angry and nuts, but he’s nuts and angry. Watching their alternate reality is like being dropped into some parallel universe where everything is twisted about 180 degrees.

Here are a few choice comments from Garofalo on Olbermann’s Thursday show. Amazingly, she knows things about you and the Tea Parties and Fox News that no one else has ever known. Or ever will know.

“Racism straightup. Nothing but a bunch of teabagging racists.” Blah-blah-blah. “These guys hate that a black guy is in the White House.” Blah-blah-blah. “Fox News loves to foment this anti-intellectualism because that’s their bread and butter.” Blah-blah-blah. “The Republican hyphen conservative movement has crystalized into the white power movement.”

Olbermann actually treats this lunatic like she’s a rational human being. Of course, that would be the pot calling the kettle black.

Hey, that wasn’t a racist comment. No matter what Garofalo says.

Update: Please read our subsequent Memo to the lovely and gracious Janeane Garofalo:

Source: HotAir.com

Leading Democrat objects to Obama administration’s “right wing extremist” report

Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano think this is the Tomb of the Unknown Terrorist.
Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano think this is the Tomb of the Unknown Terrorist.

Janet Napolitano finds herself this morning standing in a big pile of something that smells very bad.

Even a leading House Democrat wants to know why the Secretary of Homeland Security chose to issue a report that targets veterans as potential terrorists.

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he was “dumbfounded” by the report.

“This report appears to raise significant issues involving the privacy and civil liberties of many Americans — including war veterans,” Mr. Thompson stated in the letter to Napolitano.

“As I am certain you agree, freedom of association and freedom of speech are guaranteed to all Americans — whether a person’s beliefs, whatever their political orientation, are ‘extremist’ or not.”

You know the Department of Homeland Security report is a gross distortion of the truth when someone with Thompson’s solid liberal credentials sees the danger in it.

Source: HotAir.com

PBS to carry al Jazeera propaganda news program. Network to be renamed al PBS?

Introducing al PBS\' new correspondent in Afghanistan. Or maybe Pakistan.
Introducing al PBS' new correspondent in Afghanistan. Or maybe Pakistan.

PBS, the national broadcasting network funded with our tax dollars and your tax dollars and the coerced donations of America’s corporations, has plumbed new depths in its anti-American news coverage.

The network’s WorldFocus program now carries reports from Al Jazeera’s English channel, leading some lawmakers and a lot of citizens to object.

“It is a professional institution but it is a militant institution that wants to convey an ideological Jihadi message,” Walid Phares, a terrorism expert for Fox News, said about al Jazeera.

“My concern is that the American people should be pretty darn upset about the fact that their tax dollars are going to fund this,” said North Carolina’s Republican Rep. Sue Myrick said. “I mean, they’re already upset about what their tax dollars are going to fund, and now they’re funding propaganda.

WorldFocus responded with this statement:

“Though many people who have not seen Al Jazeera English think of it as a propaganda machine for Islamic extremist causes, much of what it produces is not ideological. We also believe Al Jazeera English does sometimes offer us and our viewers a unique perspective from various parts of the world where it has access that others don’t.”

In other news, PBS has announced that it will offer a whole new line of al Jazeera logo items during its next fundraiser. Products include authentic-looking dynamite vests for the dashing about town, stylish burkhas for the liberal lady who wants that chic “international” look, and the much requested “Bush Is Hitler” notepads.

Call now. Operators are standing by.

Source: Fox News

Sacré bleu! Nicolas Sarkozy resigns from the Barack Obama Fan Club

Nicolas Sarkozy pense que Barack Obama est plein de la merde.
Nicolas Sarkozy pense que Barack Obama est plein de la merde.
Let this be a warning to all the world leaders reading IHateTheMedia.com: Do not steal the limelight from Nicolas Sarkozy.

Sarkozy is calling time out on President Obama’s attempts to reassert American leadership, calling them as unoriginal, unsubstantial and overrated.

The French president is a little pissy about the superstar treatment Obama received on his European tour a couple weeks ago.

According to the Times of London:

The American President’s call to free the world of the menace of a nuclear nightmare” was hot air, Mr Sarkozy’s diplomatic staff told him in a report. “It was rhetoric – not a speech on American security policy but an export model aimed at improving the image of the United States,” they said. Most of Mr Obama’s proposals had already been made by the Bush administration and Washington was dragging its feet on disarmament and treaties against nuclear proliferation, the leaked report said.

Personal pique and French politics are also behind the souring of Mr Sarkozy’s self-promoted honeymoon with the United States. On the personal side, the French President is needled by the adulation for an unproven US leader whose stardom has eclipsed what he sees as his established record as a world troubleshooter. “The President is annoyed by what he sees as the naivety and the herd mentality of the media,” said a journalist who is privy to Elysée thinking.

One member of IHateTheMedia.com’s Editorial Board suffered through two years of French in high school. He’s had an intense dislike of the country and its culture and its people and its food ever since. He hates French poodles, French fries, and French braids, French maids, French pastries, French accents and French perfume.

But now he says, “Vive la France! Vive Le Sarkozy!”

Source: Times of London

CNN reporter demonstrates exactly why Rupert Murdoch founded Fox News

Back when Rupert Murdoch founded Fox, he said he was doing it because CNN was biased, out of touch and ignored a major part of the audience.

Murdoch’s wisdom was never more evident than during yesterday’s Tea Parties.

First, a CNN reporter asks a man why he’s at the Tea Party, interrupts his answer, and raves about the state of Illinois gets $50 billion in “stimulus” money.

We could excuse it as the emotional excesses of a single reporter. Except for one thing: the YouTube video of the segment is titled “CNN Reporter Roughed Up at Chicago Tea-Party” despite the fact that there was no physical confrontation whatsoever. The bias is simply endemic at CNN.

This one simple clip demonstrates why Fox has higher ratings than the other cable news networks combined.

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