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Rush’s ratings skyrocket. Thanks, President Obama!

Conservative talk radio is toasting with champagne, but lib talk radio is just plain toast.
Conservative talk radio is toasting with champagne, but lib talk radio is just plain toast.
The more President Obama and the Democrats talk about talk radio titan Rush Limbaugh, the higher his ratings go. And he’s taking all conservative talk radio along for a very exciting ride.

Radio insiders expected the ratings to show growth with a Democrat in the White House. But the actual numbers are exploding far beyond anyone’s expectations.

Brian Maloney’s Radio Equalizer is a great site if you’re interested in an insider’s view of talk radio. Here’s how he reports the most recent results in the nation’s top markets:

In New York City, WABC has experienced huge gains during Rush’s noon- 3pm timeslot: from 4.6 to 6.7 overall (12 and older) share, good for first place overall in the nation’s largest market. Rush’s Big Apple listenership is now estimated at 693,000.

In the second-largest market, Los Angeles, KFI-AM has surged into the number one position (all listeners 12 and older) from 9am to noon, with 618,000 listeners, a 4.6 to 6.0 audience share increase over three months and an even bigger males 35-64 (4.6 to 6.3) move, to take first place there as well.

Chicago, saw another huge move, with Rush affiliate WLS also taking first place during his timeslot (12 and older), from 5.2 share to 6.9 and a total local listenership of 396,700 in the third-largest market.

KSFO / San Francisco saw similar results, despite the extreme-left bent of the Bay Area: 4.7 to 6.0 share, now ranking second overall and with men aged 35-64. Total audience: 346,000.

In Dallas – Fort Worth, 4.8 to 6.4 men 35-64 and fourth overall (12+), 3.5 to 4.5. Cumulative audience: 250,000.

Houston’s results were truly blockbuster: 6.0 to 9.8 overall, ranking number one with a bullet and audience of 382,300. Men 35-64: number one again, from 8.6 to 12.2 over three months. Adults 25-54: first place, 4.6 to 8.7. Women 25-54: 3.7 to 8.3 again good for a top ranking.

DC’s WMAL also saw Rush-related growth: 4.1 to 6.7, good for third overall and an audience of 155,300. Men 35-64: number one with a staggering 6.4 to 13.4 move.

In Atlanta, Rush has helped WGST fend off an enormous competitor, WSB-AM, with a similar 4.0 to 6.2 upward move, good for fifth place overall and a total audience of 473,500. The results are better in the male 35-64 demographic, surging from 5.5 to 8.0 share.

Bucking Detroit’s recent Democratic voting trend, Rush’s performance on WJR-AM has been more significant than ever, moving into first place with a 5.8 to 9.6 jump. Men 35-64: number one and 11.6 share. Total audience: 253,000.

Hey, turn down that conservative talk radio show for a second. Hear that dull thud? That’s the sound of lib talk radio hosts pounding their heads against the wall.

Source: Radio Equalizer

Strange but True
Teen girl charged with child porn for posting nude photos of herself

We had another funny caption for this photo, but then we saw the photo credit went to Irina Slutsky. 'Nuff said.
We had another funny caption for this photo, but then we saw the photo credit went to Irina Slutsky. 'Nuff said.
New Jersey police have charged a 14-year old girl with sexually exploiting herself. Strange, but true.

She was arrested Tuesday after allegedly posting a couple dozen naked photos of herself on MySpace.

Police began investigating the case after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The girl said she posted the pictures for her boyfriend. Of course, in addition to her boyfriend, all her other online “friends” could also see the photos.

The girl has been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.

Why stop there? We say throw the book at the little criminal. Charge her with stealing her own identify, blackmailing herself, and felonious out-of-focus photography.

Source: NorthJersey.com via NBC New York

Andy Richter takes a shot at smug Prius owners

This is a great commercial. Actually, we don’t know if it’s a real commercial or just something Richter put together to express his opinion of pompous Prius drivers.

But first a story: We have a very good friend who lives in a ritzy neighborhood in Santa Monica, California, not far from Laurie David.

You remember Laurie David. Former wife of Seinfeld producer Larry David. Was touring the country with Sheryl Crow when the singer urged everyone to use just one square of toilet paper. That Laurie David.

We were walking down the street with our friend one day when we came upon another neighbor who was unloading groceries from her SUV. She was pissed.

“Laurie David just pulled up,” the neighbor said, “and yelled at me for driving an SUV instead of a Prius. What a bitch.”

Now that we’ve set the scene, watch the Andy Richter commercial. Be prepared to laugh.

Source: Tim Blair/Sydney Daily Telegraph

Newsweek announces plan to prolong its long, slow, agonizing death

Watching Newsweek is like watching the Bataan Death March. Only uglier.

Times are tough at the weekly news magazine. Last year, its circulation dropped from 3.1 million to 2.6 million. It is expected to drop to 1.9 million by July and again to 1.5 million by next January.

In response, it is launching a new smaller design, moving to a heavier paper stock, and putting more emphasis on photography. But the biggest news is that Newsweek is abandoning in-depth coverage of the week’s news.

We’re no publishing experts, but if Newsweek is abandoning weekly news coverage, we think they might want to find a name, too.

If you like NPR, you’ll love the “Newspaper Revitalization Act”

Democrat senators are battling to see who can introduce this year’s stupidest proposal. Ben Cardin of Maryland has raced out to an early lead.

His “Newspaper Revitalization Act” would allow papers to convert into not-for-profit entities. Zap. They get big tax breaks. But Cardin justifies his nonsense by saying that the new non-profits would be prohibited from running editorials. You know, like NPR.

Obviously, Cardin’s bill is designed to give deep-pocketed Democrat Daddy Warbucks a chance to turn any paper into a tax-free source of promulgating propaganda.

Sure. Why not? After all, NPR follows that same basic business model and you can see how well it’s remained impartial while sucking at Washington DC’s distended teat.

Source: NewsBusters

Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary wipes out terrorism. It’s now a “man-caused disaster.”

A Janet Napolitano man-caused disaster
A Janet Napolitano man-caused disaster. Photo:WallyG

Two months in office and President Obama has already wiped out terrorism. Who knew it would be this easy?

You see, the President’s Homeland Security Secretary thinks the word terrorism isn’t very nice, that it represents those darned old-fashioned “politics of fear.” So she wiped out terrorism with a stroke of her pen…or her tongue.

Don’t get us wrong. Janet Napolitano didn’t do anything that will save any lives or make us any safer or stop any of the bad guys. She just eliminated it from her vocabulary and renamed it a “man-caused disaster.”

Here’s what she told the German magazine Der Spiegel:

Der Spiegel: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word “terrorism.” Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?

Napolitano: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word “terrorism,” I referred to “man-caused” disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.

Seriously. So from now on, it’s not terrorism. It’s a man-caused disaster. So we assume they’re not terrorists anymore, either, but man-caused disaster makers…or doers…causers…or whatever.

Somebody out there help us here. Is this more of that change we can believe in?

Source: NewsBusters, Der Spiegel

You’re gay. You support multiculturalism. You just signed your own death warrant.

Why is it that liberals don’t understand about the goals of Muslim extremists?

Creeping Sharia reports this story from England, but it could just as easily have been from the United States:

Hate preacher Anjem Choudary launched a vitrolic attack on gays last week in which he said that they should be stoned to death.

The former lawyer, who lives on benefits, added that this would include gay business secretary Lord Peter Mandelson, who, under Sharia law, would first be educated about the “evils” of homosexuality then executed if he confessed to a same-sex relationship.

He was speaking at a press conference in London organised by Islamic extremists to justify a protest in Luton last week against soldiers returning home from Iraq.

Choudary said: “If a man likes another man, it can happen, but if you go on to fulfil your desire, if it is proved, then there is a punishment to follow. You don’t stone to death unless there are four eyewitnesses. It is a very stringent procedure.

“There are some people who are attracted to donkeys but that does not mean it is right.”

Sadly, it’s the people who are attracted to donkeys who are blind to this problem. And they day will come when they really need help from the people who are attracted to elephants.

Source: Big Tweet via Creeping Sharia

Julianne Moore to play Hillary Clinton. Massive make-up costs assure production will go over-budget?

If this woman can convince you she's Hillary Clinton, she's the greatest actress of all time.
If this woman can convince you she's Hillary Clinton, she's the greatest actress of all time.
This is one of the strangest casting decisions in the history of Hollywood.

Julianne Moore, who is an exceptionally hot actress, has signed on to play Hillary Clinton, who has an exceptionally hot temper. That’s the only connection we could find between the two.

The new movie will be called Special Relationship and will also star Dennis Quaid as former President Bill Clinton.

“This is a big role for both of them,” said one insider. “Playing Hillary, a wife who stands by her unfaithful husband, will be something she can get her teeth stuck into.”

“That’s not right,” Bill must have thought, “Hillary doesn’t have teeth. She has fangs.”

Source: Huffington Post

“The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government.” Sounds eerily familiar.


Looks like Daniel Hannan is Great Britain’s answer to Thaddeus McCotter, our favorite congressman.

Here’s a speech the MEP from South East England delivered during British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s appearance before the European Parliament.

Hmmmm. When he says the word “Prime Minister” and “Great Britain” pretend he’s saying “President” and “United States” and it all makes sense. In a terrifying sort of way.

Source: DrudgeReport

ACORN takes “working families” on magical misery tour

A few dozen protesters showed up over the weekend at the homes of AIG executives to demonstrate their outrage and class envy. All that was missing from the mob were pitchforks and torches.

“The politicians who are creating this distraction from their own role also voted for the very legislation that enabled contracted bonuses to be paid by companies like AIG that received government bailout money,” Columnist Tom Sowell observed. “If members of Congress can’t be bothered to read the laws they pass, then they have no basis for whipping up lynch mob outrage.”

The Connecticut chapter of a “progressive” activist group called Working Families Party organized the tour of mansions and invited the gaggle of compliant reporters.

Working Families (which seems to consist only of non-working people) describes itself “a coalition of labor and community groups”. Ah yes, good ol’ community organizers like ACORN out promoting “social justice.” But don’t worry about the death threats. As the WFP press release states, “For the most part, those who got off the bus and approached the homes of the executives kept their anger in check.”

Just once we’d like to see protesters (followed by a herd of reporters) parading in front of the homes of those actually responsible for this mess. Like Democratic Congress-tools Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

Source: Connecticut Post, Real Clear Politics

It’s ObamaMan, strange visitor from another planet

obama_vs_osama1Obama worship has officially entered the realm of the bizarre.

Now the cover of a comic book called Savage Dragon features an illustration of Obama punching out Osama. (We assume that’s Savage Dragon in the background).

Wikipedia.com says, “The Dragon is a large, finned, green-skinned humanoid whose powers include super-strength and an advanced healing factor. He is also an amnesiac: his earliest memory is awakening in a burning field in Chicago, Illinois. Thus, for most of the series, the origins of his powers and appearance are a mystery to readers. At the beginning of the series, he becomes a police officer and battles the mutant criminal “superfreaks” that terrorize Chicago.”

Superfreaks who terrorize Chicago? Cool. They’re probably named Blagoman, RezkoMan and ACORNMan.

You can own one of these special edition Obama vs Osama comics for yourself. There’s one for sale on eBay/Italy right now.

Simon Cowell prefers American Idol to American Idolatry

President Obama’s star-studded Hollywood tour didn’t quite go as planned. First, he insulted the Special Olympics on the Tonight Show. Then Simon Cowell turned him down for dinner.

That’s right. The acerbic American Idol judge told Jay Leno he was just too darn busy to get together with the president.

“He wanted to have dinner,” Cowell said, “and our diaries didn’t quite match. He wanted to do eight, I was free at nine. We just didn’t quite connect. But I told him any time I’m in Washington.”

We’d love to hear Cowell review the President’s recent teleprompter performance.

“It was,” he’d probably say “a little karaoke-ish.”

Source: Breitbart.tv

NY Times’ Krugman turns on Obama & Geithner, rejects latest rescue plan

A breakthrough for economist Paul Krugman?
A breakthrough for economist Paul Krugman?
Lordy, Lordy, Lordy. It’s hand-wringing time in the Big Apple.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s latest bailout plan is causing a personal crisis of confidence for Paul Krugman, the New York Times’ Nobel-prize winning economist.

The plan is supposed to convince private investors to take up to $1 trillion in toxic assets off the hands of troubled banks.

“This is more than disappointing,” Krugman said in the Times. “In fact it fills me with a sense of despair.”

“It’s as if the president were determined to confirm the growing perception that he and his economic team are out of touch, that their economic vision is clouded by excessively close ties to Wall Street. And by the time Mr. Obama realizes that he needs to change course, his political capital may be gone.”

You know things are bad when we’re not pleased by anything that causes despair in Paul Krugman.

Source: New York Times

English rocker Noel Gallagher says, “The planet? I just don’t give a f**k.”

oasis-noel-gallagherTwo English rockers, Noel Gallagher of Oasis and Chris Martin of Coldplay, are butting heads over the environment.

“I remember being out with Chris one night and he said, ‘Why do you think it’s cool not to care?’ and I said, ‘Well I don’t think it’s cool, I don’t think I’m being cool.’

“I actually couldn’t give a f**k about what’s going on outside my family: me, my missus, my two kids and my Mam, and her parents…that’s it, for me.

“You know each to their own and I’m glad there’s people like that. But I just like to look after my own. I genuinely don’t give a f**k.”

While he was at it, Gallagher should have said he didn’t give a f**k about pseudo-environmentalist rockers who marry pompous American actresses who then pretend they’re English and give their children embarrassing names like Apple.

Source: Tim Blair/Sydney Daily Telegraph, The Sun

We’re all screwed, government to buy condoms from China

Outsourced Chinese condom. Mao Tse-Dong brand, we assume.
Outsourced Chinese condom. Mao Tse-Dong brand, we assume.

So much for American jobs. So much for stimulus. Well, wait a minute, maybe we shouldn’t refer to “stimulus” in this story.

McClatchy reports:

In a move expected to cost 300 American jobs, the government is switching to cheaper off-shore condoms, including some made in China.

The switch comes despite implied assurances over the years that the agency would continue to buy American whenever possible.

“Of course, we considered how many U.S. jobs would be affected by this move,” said a USAID official who spoke on the condition that he would not be named. But he said the reasons for the change included lower prices (2 cents versus more than 5 cents for U.S.-made condoms) and the fact that Congress dropped “buy American language” in a recent appropriations bill.

So the Obama administration is doing exactly what they condemn American business for doing – outsourcing to cheaper foreign companies.

First they import cheap condoms, then they increase spending on abortions. Now it all makes sense.

Source: McClatchy

Steve Kroft asks Obama if he’s punch drunk, but avoids question he should have asked.

President Obama appeared on “60 Minutes” last night and giggled like an inebriated schoolgirl throughout a discussion of the perilous condition of the world’s economy.

It was so odd, so distracting, so bizarre, that Steve Kroft finally asked what may be the the most unusual question ever asked a sitting President.

“You’re sitting here,” Kroft said, “and you’re, you’re laughing. You’re laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he’s sitting there just making jokes about money.’ How do you deal with — I mean, explain. Are you punch drunk?”

That’s what Kroft asked. But we suspect that what he really wondered was, “How many days were you in office before you realized you were way in over your head?”

Source: 60 Minutes

Welcome back, McCotter: Our favorite congressman tells “How to speak Democrat”

Here’s Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-Michigan) translating Democrat-speak into clear, concise English.

We love this guy. You’ll love this guy. If only there were about 300 more just like him in Washington, DC.

Update: We are so impressed with this guy that we’ve made an entire page devoted to him here at IHTM (link in left sidebar): America’s Conservative: Thaddeus McCotter.

Stewardess porn: Please make sure you’re strapped in for take off

Last week we reported on a helicopter pilot whose license was suspended when the FAA discovered he had participated in a porn production while flying his copter over San Diego. This week we report on Edita Schindlerova, a flight attendent for Irish discount airline Ryanair. She’s been busted for moonlighting as an online porn star.

Forecasters anticipate steamy conditions in July. (click to enlarge)
Forecasters anticipate steamy conditions in July. (click to enlarge)

Last week we reported on a helicopter pilot whose license was suspended when the FAA discovered he had participated in a porn production while flying his copter over San Diego.

This week we report on Edita Schindlerova, a flight attendent for Irish discount airline Ryanair. She’s been busted for moonlighting as an online porn star.

Ryanair doesn’t care. “What people do before or after they work for us is their business,” a spokesperson noted.

Uh-oh. We’re not sure if this is a PR nightmare or blessing. The airline puts out (you’ll pardon the expression) a yearly calendar (photos) featuring attractive employees. The 2009 edition features their own personal porn star wearing a shiny bikini with this caption, “Sexy Edita was a total natural in front of the camera, and didn’t mind getting her hands dirty at the fuelling station. What a star!”

It gives a whole new meaning to the term “landing strip.” (Hey, it could have been worse. We almost said, “It gives a whole new meaning to the term “cockpit.”)

Source: Independent.ie

Latest diplomatic gaffe: Obama doesn’t know who the French president is

Napoleon Sarkozy. Or Nicholas Bonaparte. Or some French leader. (Photo credit: azrainman)
Napoleon Sarkozy. Or Nicholas Bonaparte. Or some French leader. (Photo credit: azrainman)
Imagine the outrage in the media if George Bush had mistakenly written a diplomatic letter to the former leader of an ally instead of its current leader. Sadly, but not so surprisingly, that’s exactly what President Obama just did.

The online version of leading French newspaper Le Figaro says President Obama sent a letter to French Jacques Chirac saying that he wants to “work with him” over the next four years.

Oops! Chirac isn’t president of France anymore. Nicolas Sarkozy was elected to that office in May 2007.

Obama’s letter said, “I am certain that we will be able to work together, in the coming four years, in a spirit of peace and friendship to build a safer world.”

Coming just a few days after Obama insulted British Prime Minster Gordon Brown, this is apparently part of a undisclosed plan by Obama to alienate NATO members one-by-one.

In other diplomatic news, President Obama has also sent letters to Russian Czar Nicholas II, English Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck.

Source: Le Figaro

Another rough weekend in the headlines for President Obama

Ouch. It’s getting rough out there. The fawning press seems to be doing less fawning and a little more…uh..reporting. Yeah, that’s a good word. Reporting.

• Orlando ‘Tea Party’ rally draws thousands

• CITI, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chiefs Criticize Limits on Bonuses

• Alarm over US moves for punitive taxes

• Venezuela’s Chavez calls Obama ‘ignoramus’

• Biden pokes fun at his boss during Gridiron

• Dollar Posts Largest Weekly Drop Since 1985

• Senator Gregg: Obama Budget Will Bankrupt USA

• Resistance grows to Obama’s bigger government; mistrust of central control

• Obama Administration Regroups After Rough Couple of Weeks

• Geithner on ‘Shaky Grounds’

• Obama Insults Special Olympics

• AIG Scandal May Be Last Straw for Chris Dodd’s Career

• Iran’s Supreme Leader Dismisses Obama Overtures

• Senator Shelby Losing Confidence in Geithner

“Hillary: The Movie” – Will the Supreme Court give it thumbs up or thumbs down?

The Supreme Court has agreed to review a case involving “Hillary: The Movie.”

“The outcome of this case,” producer David Bossie said, “will dictate how we’re able to make films and educate people about them.”

Bossie’s movie was released while Hillary Clinton was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. He wanted to run TV commercials in key states during the primaries and show the movie on cable TV. But federal courts said no and said “Hillary: The Movie” violated campaign finance regulations because it was nothing more than an attack ad.

Bossie’s group, Citizens United, appealed to the Supreme Court, saying the film is a documentary comparable to TV news programs such as “60 Minutes.”

This could wreak havoc on President Obama’s stimulus plan. Sure, there’s plenty of money to bail out the banks, no one can afford nine tickets to the movies these days.

Source: Fox News

Bush said “nu-cu-lar,” Obama says “de-fib-ulator,” we say, “Hah!”

George Washington couldn't tell a lie. He didn't need a defibulator.
George Washington couldn't tell a lie. He didn't need a de-fib-ulator.
According to the media we hate, George Bush was a moron for saying, “Nu-cu-lar” (despite the fact that he captained a nu-cu-lar submarine, Jimmy Carter said it the same way).

We’re still waiting to hear how stupid Barack Obama is for mispronouncing “defibrillator” on the Tonight Show. Guess the story was simply lost in the flood of mainstream reportage of the President’s “Special Olympics” quip.

Oddly enough, we had to go all the way to Tim Blair’s blog (“the second funniest blog on the internet”) in Australia to read the about this slip-up.

Here’s Obama’s Tonight Show appearance again. Start paying attention at about the 1:50 mark. He says it just at the 2:00 mark.

Defibrillator – the definitive treatment for the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
– Wikipedia

Defibulator – the definitive treatment necessary to translate the lies told by any Democrat discussing the bail-out bill. Or bills. Or damn near anything else.
– IHateTheMedia.com

Source: Tim Blair/Sydney Daily Telegraph

Ronald Reagan speaks to the ’64 Republican convention

Thanks to the folks at MofoPolitics.com for reminding us of that moment in history when Ronald Reagan was thrust upon the national stage.

“It occurs to me having just watched this,” Mofo said, “that Barack Obama isn’t regarded as so charismatic and articulate because he is so charismatic and so articulate, but because he is so charismatic and so articulate in comparison to those politicians he has had the good fortune to run against.”

No fancy production values. No special effects. No overpaid speech writers. Just Ronald Reagan being Ronald Reagan.

Source: MofoPolitics.com

“The Fix” is in. ABC News busted by Washington Post.

Is NBC still using this logo? They were the last time anyone actually watched the network.
Is NBC still using this logo? They were the last time anyone actually watched the network.
A couple weeks back, ABCNews.com started a daily web series featuring its correspondents and anchors. They called it “The Fix.”

Last week lawyers from The Washington Post said the newspaper owns the name “The Fix” and slapped a cease and desist order on the network. Turns out Post writer Chris Cillizza uses the title for his Twitter profile and it’s also the name of a blog he’s written for the Post several years.

ABC News gave up without a fight. They caved in like a house in a hurricane. They fought like the French.

According to WebNewser, ABCNews.com is trying now working on new names for its web series.

As MediaBistro asks, “So, what is driving The Washington Post to take this so seriously? And should ABC News give in? After all, ABC News and WaPo often partner on editorial projects most notably the ABC News/Washington Post poll.”

Fact is, the Post probably wouldn’t have bothered with a cease and desist had their title been stolen by NBC. Because no one ever would have seen it if it had been on NBC.

Source: MediaBistro

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