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London Telegraph on Obama: Isn’t it time for him to go home yet?

Uh-oh. The Brits are not true believers.
Uh-oh. The Brits are not true believers.
Rahm Emanuel better start including the London newspapers in his daily phone calls to the media. They’ve been brutal in their assessment of the Obamassiah’s European performance.

Like this, for example, from the London Telegraph:

Barack Obama really does go on a bit

Isn’t it time for him to go home yet? It is good, in theory, that the new President of the United States is taking so much time to tour Europe…But his long stay means that we are hearing rather a lot from him, way too much in fact.

His speeches have long under-delivered, usually leaving a faintly empty sensation in this listener even though I welcomed, moderately, his victory last year as offering the possibility of a fresh start and a boost to confidence.

The Telegraph continued:

His performance at the first press conference in London with Gordon Brown featured moments in which he sparkled – his riff on loving the Queen was a high-point. But most of the serious answers that I listened to were interminable, windy and not very impressive. At points there were pauses so long that it appeared he had simply lost his train of thought.

Today, we were treated to another set-piece Obama speech, and my didn’t he go on a bit? The crowd in Prague was huge, and initially wildly enthusiastic, but what he served up was not any more impressive than his damp squib in Berlin last year…

The Telegraph concluded with this stinging assessment:

The Obamas have handled their trip well and in their public appearances have been a credit to their country. But I’ll wager that within a year or so he’ll be marked down as a wind-bag.

We were surprised to learn that President Obama delivered damp squib in Berlin last year. Perhaps that’s why the Brits are upset. They only got some DVDs and iPods.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

What happened to the congressional uproar about AIG executive bonuses?

Ssssssh! Never again mention those AIG bonuses in the hallowed halls of Congress.
Ssssssh! Never again mention those AIG bonuses in the hallowed halls of Congress.

All they could talk about in Congress a couple weeks ago was the AIG executive bonus issue.

The vigilantes in Congress were going to tax ‘em. Grab ‘em. Put ‘em back in the U.S. Treasury where they belong. And maybe tar and feather the execs while they were at it. It was the most important issue of the century.

Then it all went away, mysteriously replaced by the kind of eerie silence found only at the National Library.

Daniel Schwartz, a Hartford employment law attorney, may have an explanation for the new, quieter, more gentle tone in Washington, DC. It all revolves around the case of a Connecticut-based company called Mortgage Lenders Network that found itself in a situation remarkably similar to AIG:

The company had built a nationwide presence by making subprime loans and was in the midst of building a big new headquarters in the state. But by late 2006, it was going through some financial difficulties as credit lines came to a halt and then it allegedly failed to pay some employees commissions–at least $1.6 million total. (These were, after all, the same employees, who participated in the company’s subprime lending practices.)

Ultimately, MLN filed for bankruptcy. What did the state do then? It had an investigator from the Department of Labor look into the situation and ultimately issued an arrest warrant for the Company’s president back in March 2007 for failure to pay wages and sales commissions on time.

Schwartz concludes:

“…if the State was willing to go after an employer for failing to pay just $1.6M in wages and sales commissions, is it fair now to suggest to employers in Connecticut, like AIG, that they can now simply ignore obligations they make to their employees because they are going through financial difficulties and can’t really afford to pay them?”

Speak a word of those bonuses now and Nancy Pelosi will put her index finger before her lips and personally tell you to sssh!

Source: Connecticut Employment Law Blog via WSJ.com

Olbermann uses understatement for the first time, admits “I’m the a-hole.”

Just when you were beginning to think Keith Olbermann was completely out of touch with reality, he goes and makes sense.

While interviewing new MSNBC host Ed Schultz, Olbermann pigeonholed all the other role players at the network.

“Alright,” Olbermann said, “you’ve got the conundrum all of us have as this thing gets more and more successful. The show’s got to look like a relative of all the other shows right before it and right after it. But not too much. I mean, Chris is the political inside-baseball guy. Rachel is the affable, charming policy wonk. I’m the a-hole. What are you going to be?”

We don’t really know which is more surprising: Olbermann acknowledging his assholishness or his belief (despite ratings evidence to the contrary) that MSNBC is getting “more and more successful.”

Source: Finkelblog.com

British sex scandal makes Clinton look like an amateur

"Where's Bill Clinton?" Nigel Griffiths at the Obama inauguration.
"Where's Bill Clinton?" Nigel Griffiths at the Obama inauguration.

Nigel Griffiths, a former member of Parliament, has been busted for wild sexcapades in his office inside the House of Commons. It involves sex, photography and numerous adult beverages.

Here’s how News of the World reports it:

Incredibly 53-year-old Griffiths wants you to believe he has “little recollection” of spending 38 minutes taking 27 explicit images of a woman spread-eagled across the furniture of his ground floor Commons office, just yards from the Prime Minister’s own Commons office.

It was such an unmemorable sex session that he also apparently barely remembers, just half hour later, spending another hour and 40 minutes taking a further 44 pictures at a second location.

On Friday Griffiths’ lawyer David Price blamed the MP’s loss of memory about the Remembrance Day romp on being “under the influence of alcohol”. But at one point he had recollected enough to create the time to transfer those 71 snaps from his camera to his laptop.

Former President Bill Clinton was undoubtedly dismayed by this story.

“The I-was-too-drunk defense,” former President Bill Clinton reportedly thought. “Why didn’t I think of that one?”

Source: News of the World

Diary of a Mad Black Woman
(with apologies to Tyler Perry)

California Democrat Representative Maxine Waters comes out in this 2008 video clip and admits the truth. “This liberal” wants to nationalize all the oil companies. She wants the government to run them.

Now that this administration has used the financial crisis to get its hands on the banks, Wall Street, and the auto companies, what sounded so preposterous a year ago suddenly seems far more ominous.

It never hurts to remind everyone what’s really on the minds of liberals.

Biden puts foot in mouth again. Credits stimulus for fire station funded by Bush.

Rare photo of Joe Biden as an infant, already exhibiting the trait for which he would later become famous.
Rare photo of Joe Biden as an infant, already exhibiting the trait for which he would later become famous.

Joe Biden showed up in North Carolina Wednesday to tell folks that the “stimulus” money isn’t reserved for Wall Street and car companies. No way, Joe assured them.

While appearing at an outdated fire station in Pikeville, NC, Biden promised billions for home loans and community projects like a new fire station for the good Pikevillians.

“We’re investing in places like this all across the country,” Biden bragged, “to demonstrate the vital role towns like this play in the recovery.”

Uh-oh. Fact check on register three, Joe.

The bulk of the money for the new fire station was secured last year. You know, last year when George Bush was president.

State Sen. David Rouzer, Pikeville’s Republican congressman said he helped nail down the construction funds out of last year’s regular federal budget.

“They’re coming in and cherry picking the best projects and switching out the money, saying it’s stimulus money,” Rouzer observed. “But it was already approved and in the pipeline. It’s totally disingenuous to come down here and say this is stimulus money, when regardless of whether a stimulus bill passed, they were getting the money.”

In other news, Biden announced that the Golden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam and the 1939 New York World’s Fair would also be built with stimulus money.

Source: McClatchy

What happens when you do a Google Image search for “obama” and “poster?”

We got a note this morning from the Executive Research Director here at IHateTheMedia.com.

“I was searching the internet last night for a copy of Shepard Fairey’s red, white and blue Obama poster. So I did a Google search for ‘Obama’ and ‘poster.’ The results are hilarious. You’ll probably do a story on it.”

We tried it. Sure enough. Up came dozens of funny variations of the Shepard Fairey poster. We’re sharing some of our favorites with you.

obama posters

UK Guardian: “The question that flummoxed the great orator”

Gordon Brown wondering what the hell Barack Obama is talking about.
Gordon Brown wondering what the hell Barack Obama is talking about.

There is some immense disconnect between American media and British media. While the American media swoons at the feet of Barack Obama, the British media has been writing about his feet of clay.

Here’s the UK Guardian’s scathing review of one of the President’s British news conferences:

Barack Obama, the World’s Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn’t exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking…

Click through and read the rest of it. It’s hilarious.

Source: UK Guardian

Democrats demanded Bush exit strategy, timeline for Iraq. Couldn’t care less about Obama and Afghanistan.

Murderous U.S. soldier battling mob of angry Afghanis who hate our troops
Murderous U.S. soldier battling mob of angry Afghanis who hate our troops
The Obama administration has admitted it has no Afghanistan exit strategy. And then announced that the strategy it does have sounds remarkably similar to Bush’s strategy in Iraq.

Of course, while the Bush strategy left the left quivering with anger, the Obama strategy was greeted with virtual silence by the same critics.

One thing we do know – Obama’s adding another 4,000 troops on top of 17,000 troops he previously okayed.

“The only exit strategy will be to leave the Afghan people to deal with their security problem,” said Richard Holbrooke, one of President Obama’s foreign policy advisors. He also said Obama’s priorities include training the Afghan army and the national police force, reducing corruption, and reducing violence throughout the country.

Huh? Doesn’t that sound exactly like what Bush said about Iraq?

Sure, there have been a few small protests here and there, but we’re still waiting for John Kerry to announce that American soldiers in Afghanistan are terrorists. We’re still waiting for John Murtha to announce that American soldiers in Afghanistan are killers. We’re still waiting for Harry Reed to announce that we’ve lost in Afghanistan.

And we’re still waiting for Nancy Pelosi to get back from her latest Botox session.

Source: CNSNews.com

Oh, God! Obama gives the Queen of England an iPod!

Confusion ensued when President Obama told the Queen of England how much he loves "Crocodile Rock."
Confusion ensued yesterday when President Obama told the Queen of England how much he loves "Crocodile Rock."

It was April Fool’s Day, so you may be tempted to think we’re making this up. Unfortunately, it’s true.

President Obama continues to impress foreign dignitaries with his diplomatic gifts. Not.

During their visit to Buckingham Palace this week, the Queen Elizabeth II of England gave the Obamas a signed picture of herself beautifully framed in silver. The President presented her majesty with an iPod. Yes, you read that correctly – the officlal state gift from the President of the United States to the Queen of England was an iPod. (Now available on eBay starting as low as $15.89).

Unfortunately, the Queen already has an iPod. No word yet on whether she picked it up on eBay.

The iPod came loaded with photos of the Queen’s visits to Jamestown and Richmond, plus photos of Obama’s inauguration. The ObamaPod also came with…wait for it…Obama’s 2004 convention speech and his inaugural address. It also came loaded with show tunes. A whole bunch of Broadway show tunes including the song “Send In The Clowns.” Seems apropos.

Rumor has it that Obama was very disappointed when he met the Queen. “When you said we were going to meet the old Queen of England,” he steamed, “I thought you meant Elton John.”

Source: Daily Telegraph, ABC News

The mysterious case of the missing French Kiss

Speculation is running rampant as to why Barack Obama and supermodel Carla Bruni didn’t enjoy (from his point of view, in our opinion) the customary French double cheek kiss when they first met Friday morning in Strasbourg, France. After all, Michelle exchanged kisses with both Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla, and the two presidents even had their warm manhug. But what went wrong when Barack and Carla’s turn came?

Your guess is as good as ours. In fact, let’s hear your theories.

Associated Press thinks Michael Moore’s opinion is 2.1 times more important than Ted Nugent’s

ted_nugent1 The Associated Press makes it pretty clear where they come down politically. In fact, they couldn’t disguise it if they tried.

Take Saturday’s AP story on Detroit, for example. They asked three homegrown Detroit celebrities – Michael Moore, Ted Nugent, and Mary Wilson – about the city’s troubles.

They lead off with liberal fantasy moviemaker Moore, giving him seven paragraphs and 204 words. Yet conservative Motor City Madman Nugent merits only two paragraphs and 96 words (previous article). Even politically unannounced former Supreme Wilson tops that with four paragraphs and 104 words. The story even allowed Moore a chance to promote his new “documentary,” but mentioned no current or future projects from Nugent nor Wilson.

We’d like to propose a debate between the Moore and Nugent. A ten round debate. Mary Wilson can be the ring girl. Sell tickets. Bingo. Detroit’s financial problems are solved.

Mortgage your house. Put the money on Nugent.

We’re geniuses.

Source: Associated Press

Hollywood Wax Museum selling Ronald Reagan

The man should be carved out of granite on Mount Rushmore, not out of wax in Hollywood.
The man should be carved out of granite on Mount Rushmore, not out of wax in Hollywood.
Ronald Reagan is among more than 200 wax figures that will be auctioned off on May 1 by the Hollywood Wax Museum.

In addition to Ronaldus Magnus, you can bid on dozens of show biz legends, such as Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Cruise, Barbra Streisand, Charlie Chaplin, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, the “Seinfeld” cast, Lucille Ball, The Three Stooges, The Beatles, Cher, Elton John, Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan. Other U.S. Presidents include Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, and Clinton.

For more information, check out LiveAuctioneers.com.

We might bid on the Streisand wax statue.

When Earth Hour rolls around next year, we’ll turn out the incandescents and light Barbra up like a big ol’ candle. It’ll be the first time she’s ever shed light on anything.

Source: UPI via Comtex

Holy guacamole. Spanish court considers war crimes trial for Bush, six others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSe38dzJYkY A Spanish court is deciding whether to put former President Bush and six members of his administration on trial for war crimes.

Human rights lawyers brought the case before anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzon, who will send it to prosecutors if he determines that it has merit.

The ex-Bush officials are former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington, Pentagon attorney William Haynes, and Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee.

Give it a break, Spain. You lost the damn Spanish-American War fair and square. How about we just give you Puerto Rico back and call the whole thing even?

Perhaps President Bush should watch this Monty Python video just to see what kind of treatment he can expect at the hands of the dastardly Spaniards.

Source: NewsMax.com

The Economist gulps, reconsiders its Obama endorsement

obama_economist You just can’t find a newspaper with more solid economic credentials than the Economist. So a lot of people were surprised when it endorsed a radical, inexperienced candidate like Barack Obama.

Now the respected economic publication seems to be having second thoughts:

His performance has been weaker than those who endorsed his candidacy, including this newspaper, had hoped. Many of his strongest supporters—liberal columnists, prominent donors, Democratic Party stalwarts—have started to question him. As for those not so beholden, polls show that independent voters again prefer Republicans to Democrats, a startling reversal of fortune in just a few weeks. Mr Obama’s once-celestial approval ratings are about where George Bush’s were at this stage in his awful presidency. Despite his resounding electoral victory, his solid majorities in both chambers of Congress and the obvious goodwill of the bulk of the electorate, Mr Obama has seemed curiously feeble.

Feeble? The Economist may be giving him too much credit here.

Source: The Economist via HotAir.com

Did Bill Clinton kill Socks the cat?

Socks that cat is dead. We’re not exactly Columbo, but we suspect Bill Clinton may have been the cause of his or her death.

Socks died after a long bout with throat cancer. One of the leading causes of throat cancer is cigar smoke. Bill Clinton loved cigars in the White House (and sometimes even smoked them). The dangers of second-hand smoke have been well-documented. So simple logic leads us to believe that Socks died as a direct result of the former president’s filthy smoking habit.

The Clintons loved Socks while he was young, playful and good for public relations. However, he eventually lost his kitten-ish appeal and when the Clintons left the White House, they dumped Socks like an old pair of shoes.

“Socks brought much happiness to Chelsea and us over the years and enjoyment to kids and cat lovers everywhere,” said a Clinton Foundation statement. “We’re grateful for those memories, and we especially want to thank our good friend, Betty Currie, for taking such loving care of Socks for so many years.”

We bid a fond farewell to Socks, who was the White House cat at the same time that Bill Clinton was the White House horndog.

Source: Gateway Pundit

Now the terrorists are rapping. We surrender.

May you soon meet Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. at that big recording studio in the sky.
May you soon meet Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. at that big recording studio in the sky.

Looks like there’s another nutcase out there who thought it was a good idea to trade the promise of a social security check for a cave in Somalia.

That’s right. Some lunatic who claims to be American heartily endorses jihad in a video posted this week on a militant Islamic web site often used by al-Qaida and other militant groups. An expert in such things says the video shows what may be the American leader of a band of Somali terrorist with ties to al-Qaida.

As if that weren’t frightening enough, the 30-minute video features an English language soundtrack with rap “music” that can generously be described as amateurish.

Rapping terrorists? Hah! These guys wouldn’t last ten minutes in South Central L.A.

Source: Breitbart.com

British paper reports “Obama in London” differently than American papers

What's wrong with this picture? Ask the Brits.
What's wrong with this picture? Ask the Brits.
Ouch. The London Daily Mail is going off script. They’re painting an entire different picture of President Obama’s visit to London.

Here’s its scathing point of view:

Allegedly the most charismatic politician in the world, Mr Obama was a disappointment. It sounded as though he had a blocked nose and so his lack of energy may have been a symptom of a cold. Jet lag, too. He probably wished he could have stayed in bed.

He spoke slowly, in a meandering manner. Some might say that he was thoughtful and professorial. Others might call his manner circuitous, even yarny. Am I saying that he was a bore? Oh dear. I find that I possibly am.

And the Daily Mail concluded:

Now (Prime Minister Gordon Brown) placed his hands behind his back and bounced a half inch or so on the balls of his feet, relishing the sound of Solomon Obama’s replies to a few questions from the Press.

Those replies were, as I say, on the chewy side and came out at the speed of an action replay on Match of the Day. So slow, in fact, that at one point a man from the Guardian dropped his tape recorder on the floor. Mr Obama’s best moment was when he was charming about the Queen.

Our old donkey Gordon, by comparison to this American visitor, was for once Mr Eloquent, Mr Quick-Off-The-Mark. Mr Obama had managed to make Mr Brown look good. Another amazing achievement. They left with Mr Obama snaking an arm round his host’s shoulder and ushering him from the room. Very much an ‘I’m in charge’ gesture.

Based on the gushing reports from American newspapers, you might think the British love affair with Obama is so intense that they’re about to overthrow the Queen and put the President on the throne.

Actually, that might not be a bad idea, but it brings up some interesting questions. Would he have to wear the crown? Carry a purse? Would Joe Biden be Vice King?

Source: DailyMail.com

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