Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic says Obama’s not a big spending liberal and he didn’t really want to spend all that money. Translation: Who you gonna believe – me or your lyin’ eyes.
Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic says Obama’s not a big spending liberal and he didn’t really want to spend all that money.
Translation: Who you gonna believe – me or your lyin’ eyes.
IHateTheMedia.com correspondents around the country have come up with the Top Fifteen Reasons CNN anchor Martin Savidge is short of breath. in this clip.
What the hell is going on with CNN anchor Martin Savidge in this clip?
IHateTheMedia.com correspondents around the country have come up with the Top Fifteen Reasons CNN anchor Martin Savidge is short of breath.
needed an X-Ray to locate the key.
Fox News’ total viewers for the year exceeded MSNBC, HLN, and CNN combined. That dominance came primarily at the expense of CNN which lost 29% of its total viewership.
A little decorum is in order, Mr. Murdoch. Please refrain from dancing on your competitors’ graves while the cameras are rolling.
BusinessInsider.com has details of the decimation:
The ratings are out for 2010.
Perhaps not surprisingly Fox News continued its march of dominance through the cablesphere, clocking its second-highest rated year ever in total viewers.
It was also the only news channel to hit the top 10 in cable networks, ranking fourth in Primetime behind USA, ESPN and TNT.
Want some context for that? Fox News’ total viewers for the year exceeded MSNBC, HLN, and CNN combined.
That dominance came primarily at the expense of CNN which lost 29% of its total viewership in 2010 and 34% of its prime time viewers. Yes, you read that right.
MSNBC, meanwhile stayed the course in total day total viewers – it was the only news channel not to drop in that category — but dropped 5% year over year in prime time total viewers and 9% in the prime time demo.
At MSNBC, Keith Olbermann is reportedly figuring out how to staunch the loss of viewers by consulting with the ghost of James Thurber. At CNN, Anderson Cooper knows he’s doomed because he’s starting 2011 by teaming up again with Kathy Griffin to host the annual New Year’s Eve broadcast. And on HLN … well, we really don’t know what’s going on there because like the rest of the American people, we don’t even know what channel they’re on.
Source: BusinessInsider.com
You know what we need to make us love Muslims who love death more than life? A Muslim version of the Cosby Show, that’s what. Yup, that’s what CBS News anchorette Katie Couric says:
You know what we need to make us love Muslims who love death more than life? A Muslim version of the Cosby Show, that’s what. Yup, that’s what CBS News anchorette Katie Couric says:
I also think sort of the chasm, between, or the bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface this year. Of course, a lot of noise was made about the Islamic Center, mosque, down near the World Trade Center, but I think there wasn’t enough sort of careful analysis and evaluation of where this bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, and how this seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims, which I think is so misdirected, and so wrong — and so disappointing. Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show.
I know that sounds crazy, I know that sounds crazy. But The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of what they don’t understand…
But wait, Katie. We thought the liberal position was that racial relations are still terrible in this evil, racist country.
Maybe what we really need is a Muslim version of Chico & The Man. And maybe a Muslim version of Charlie Chan.
Good lord, this woman is stupid. And this is what passes for intellectual discourse in 2011.
We are doomed. Happy new year.
Also see: Katie Couric says, “We need a Muslim Cosby Show.” We say, “Here are some free ideas, Hollywood.”
Source: CBS News
If we were giving out awards for the dumbest friggin’ question of 2010, CNN’s Alina Cho would have earned her nomination in the last week of the year.
If we were giving out awards for the dumbest friggin’ question of 2010, CNN’s Alina Cho would have earned her nomination in the last week of the year.
She interviewed Lorena Bobbitt, who wisely decided that the only way she’d ever get another date was to change her name to Lorena Gallo, in a Where Are They Now segment.
In the middle of the interview, Cho asked what may be the dumbest question ever:
“After all these years, are you finally able to laugh about it?”
Remarkably, the former Mrs Bobbitt says she is able to laugh about cutting off her husband’s penis. No word on whether John Wayne Bobbit is laughing yet.
H/T: Breitbart.tv
Washington Post writer and JournoList refugee Ezra Klein showed up on MSNBC Thursday. He’s upset because Republicans want to (gasp) read the Constitution at the beginning of the new Congress. Oddly enough, he seems to think the document is obsolete
The same guy who told us in early 2010 that the 2000-page ObamaCare bill was as simple to understand as a Dick & Jane book now has trouble with a considerably shorter document – the Constitution.
Washington Post writer and JournoList refugee Ezra Klein showed up on MSNBC Thursday. He’s upset because Republicans want to (gasp) read the Constitution at the beginning of the new Congress. Oddly enough, he seems to think the document is obsolete.
To summarize his position, “Nobody can understand what it means because it’s over 100 years old.”
Let’s not come down too hard on Klein. He does seem to have a wee bit of trouble understanding anything that’s over 100 years old. Helen Thomas, for example, is almost as old as the Constitution and Klein could never understand that she was anti-Semitic.
At least he’s consistent.
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H/T: Ace of Spades
Looks like MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann is off his medications again. He’s erupted in a flurry of off-color tweets aimed at anyone who has the temerity to challenge his super superior intellect and/or support Fox News.
Looks like MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann is off his medications again. He’s erupted in a flurry of off-color tweets aimed at anyone who has the temerity to challenge his super superior intellect and/or support Fox News.
Richard Nixon once told the California press, “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.” We enter 2011 praying that Keith Olbermann will be there for us to kick around all year long.
2010 was one wild, crazy roller coaster of a year. We’re glad to have it behind us. But we’re glad you spent part of it with us.
2010 was one wild, crazy roller coaster of a year. We’re glad to have it behind us. But we’re glad you spent part of it with us.
Of course, here at IHateTheMedia.com international headquarters we’ll ring in the new year in our traditional ways.
The Administrator and his gorgeous wife will go out dancing. They’ll see in the new year by crawling home far too late and wondering why they had so much to drink.
The Editor and his beautiful wife will stay home and watch the east coast television feed of the ball dropping in Times Square and be in curled up in bed asleep by 9:30 California time.
Obama, the official IHateTheMedia.com office cat, will celebrate with a can of Fancy Feast tuna and a little catnip.
On New Years Day, the Administrator will wish he hadn’t had quite so much fun, the Editor will wish he’d had a little more, and Obama will wish one of them would scratch him behind the ears.
Have a happy new year. And if you’re going to drink, follow the Administrator’s example and crawl home.
President Obama called the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles and thanked him for giving convicted felon Michael Vick a second chance. That pissed off Megyn Kelly.
President Obama called the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles and thanked him for giving convicted felon Michael Vick a second chance.
That pissed off Megyn Kelly. And she didn’t try to hide it when she spoke to a representative of the NAACP who attempted to defend Vick.
Love you, Megyn. (Please don’t get another restraining order. We promise to stay 100 yards away this time.)
H/T: Breitbart.tv
The Argentinian version of Dancing With the Stars is called Bailando por un Sueño. Our schoolyard Spanish is a little rusty. We thought that translated to Dancing for a Dream. But after watching this clip, we can only come to the conclusion is that it actually means Dancing With The Porn Stars.
The Argentinian version of Dancing With the Stars is called Bailando por un Sueño. Our schoolyard Spanish is a little rusty. We thought that translated to Dancing for a Dream. But after watching this clip, we can only come to the conclusion is that it actually means Dancing With The Porn Stars.
Holy friggin’ moly. If this show played in the United States it would have to be on some adults only pay-per-view cable channel.
When the Editor found this clip he showed it to Mrs Editor, no prude, who watched it with her mouth agape, repeatedly saying, “Oh, my god.”
A particularly nice touch, we thought, was the series of excited yelps coming from the show’s voyeur … uhhh …. we mean announcer.
Watch. But be prepared to be shocked at what you see.
The bad news keeps coming for MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. The 2010 ratings data is starting to trickle in, and the news is not so great for the Countdown host.
There’s nothing that gets us in more of a schadenfreude-ish mood this time of year than finding out that things aren’t going well for Keith Olbermann. And this story has our schadenfreude meter pegged all the way to the right.
PoliticsUSA.com reports the bad news for Olbermann and the good news for us:
The bad news keeps coming for MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. The 2010 ratings data is starting to trickle in, and the news is not so great for the Countdown host. In a down year for cable news where all three networks registered a decline in viewers, Keith Olbermann lost 11% of his total audience, but what is most troubling is that among the coveted age 25-54 demographic Olbermann lost 25% of his audience.… Keith Olbermann’s total drop in viewership was 2% higher than MSNBC’s network average, (11% vs 9%). In contrast, Rachel Maddow lost less of her audience than MSNBC as a whole. Maddow only declined by 6% compared to the network’s 11%. Maddow’s total loss was almost half of her lead in Olbermann, (6% compared to 11%). Olbermann also lost a higher than network percentage of those viewers age 25-54. MSNBC lost 18%. Olbermann lost 25%. Maddow only lost 14%.
As Freud said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” And as schadenfreude said, “Sometimes a horse’s ass is just a horse’s ass.”
Source: PoliticsUSA.com
Liberal Chris Matthews has jumped the liberal reservation again. He’s had a moment of clarity and now says he doesn’t trust Democrats to control illegal immigration.
Liberal Chris Matthews has jumped the liberal reservation again. He’s had a moment of clarity and now says he doesn’t trust Democrats to control illegal immigration.
Mediaite reports:
Declaring he doesn’t trust either party on the immigration issue, Matthews stated “Republicans are BS’ing the country” about any plan to deport all illegal immigrants out of the country, and much more surprisingly, he next targeted Democrats. Calling the Democrats “weak,” Matthews said Democrats won’t say “how they will stop illegal immigration . . . I don’t even think they want to stop it . . . they like it.” Watch out because no one is safe from Matthews, especially not Senator Harry Reid who also gets a special mention as someone who is not serious about doing anything about the illegal immigration problem.
Welcome to our world, Chris. We know you won’t stay long, but it’s always nice to have you visit.
A prediction: Sooner or later, Matthews will make one too many of these un-liberal comments and Olbermann will turn on him.
Can’t wait to see that cat fight.
H/T: Mediaite
How can you explain Van Jones’ public admission that environmentalists just make all this crap up?
The left says Republicans are the ones who live in the past. Yet they seem to be blithely unaware of developments like cell phone video cameras and YouTube.
How else can you explain Van Jones’ public admission that environmentalists just make all this crap up?
OK, well, there is one other possibility: Van Jones is the second dumbest man alive. (Don’t worry, Van, as long as Joe Biden is still with us you’ll never be the dumbest man alive.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgKr480RYc4
The Barney Frank Squadron shows you how it’s done. Or how it will will be done in the future. Because things are going to be different in this man’s army from now on.
The Barney Frank Squadron shows you how it’s done. Or how it will will be done in the future. Because things are going to be different in this man’s army from now on.
Combat boots are out. Knee-high suede Tory Burch Connell Boots are in.
Camouflage is out. Puce is in.
Generals are out. Privates are in.
Care to add any others?
Let’s take a quick look back at that special time of year when environmentalists gather together to celebrate the birth of Christ Mother Gaia.
Let’s take a quick look back at that special time of year when environmentalists gather together to celebrate the birth of Christ Mother Gaia.
The Australian takes a jab at the depressing details of the Gaian gala:
“So as you sit at home in front of a pot plant decorated with energy-saving light bulbs, unpacking second-hand solar-powered battery chargers from recycled newspaper wrappings, just before having a modest vegetarian organic dinner, you will surely feel the very warm inner glow of a morally superior Christmas deep inside you.”
Everybody sing along now:
I’m dreaming of a green Christmas,
I wish it didn’t start to snow.
Now my solar power’s
Been out for hours
And so my Christmas lights won’t glow
I’m dreaming of a green Christmas.
My turbines blades are standing still.
And I’m starting to feel the chill,
So of green I think I’ve had my fill.
Now let’s turn to page 98 of the Van Jones Hymnal. Please join us in singing “Rudolph the Red Knows Rain, Dear.”
– Lyrics by J. Broden
Source: The Australian
Former U.S. President George W Bush’s memoir has sold an astonishing two million copies since it was released in early November – and it’s not even in paperback yet.
But … but … but … how could this be? Bill Clinton is the most beloved former President ever and George Bush is despised. Bill Clinton is articulate and George Bush is an ignorant buffoon.
The Daily Mail reports a rude reality injected into this left wing fantasy:
Former U.S. President George W Bush’s memoir has sold an astonishing two million copies since it was released in early November – and it’s not even in paperback yet.
‘Decision Points’, published both in hardcover and e-book form, is flying off the shelves, the Crown Publishing Group says.
By contrast, former president Bill Clinton’s memoir, ‘My Life’, has logged sales of 2.2million copies since it was first published in 2004.
A spokesman for Crown called the performance remarkable.
He claimed he could not think of any other hardcover nonfiction books in 2010 that had sold even one million copies, much less two.
Why has this book sold so many copies? Well, for once the Democrats are right. It’s Bush’s fault.
Source: Daily Mail UK
Here’s a simple, but brilliant theory that if true would be far more damaging to Barack Obama than the theory that he was born in Kenya.
This is good. This is really good. This is one of those things you hear for the first time and say, “Of course. That has to be the answer.”
We’re not birthers. Sure, we joke around about it, but we think Barack Obama was probably born in Hawaii. Far as we’re concerned, it makes no sense that some grand conspiracy to put him in the White House was put in motion on the day he was born in Kenya.
So if he was born in Hawaii, why doesn’t he release his original birth certificate? Even liberal lunatic Chris Matthews recently said, “Just release the damn thing, Mr. President, and shut up these birthers.”
A caller on Tim Conway, Jr’s radio show on KFI/Los Angeles Tuesday night suggested a simple, but brilliant theory that if true would be far more damaging to Barack Obama than the theory that he was born in Kenya. It goes like this:
Interracial marriage was still frowned upon even in racially-mixed Hawaii back in 1961 when Barack Obama was born.
So the reason – the simple, logical reason – that Obama won’t reveal his original birth certificate is because he is listed as white on that document. Perhaps it was his mother who checked the “White” box on the form. Or maybe the attending physician looked at the new baby, looked at his mother and said, “Baby mama white. Baby must be white” and entered that information.
This is a good one, isn’t it? It’s simple, logical and it explains Obama’s reticence to release the original birth certificate. After all, being officially designated as white would be the most devastating thing that could possibly happen to his political career. The only reason he got elected President is because, as Joe Biden said, “He’s a clean, good-looking, articulate black man.” (Don’t blame us, blame Joe.) The moment he’s seen as white, BAM!, he loses his cachet, his point of difference, his raison d’être in the sun, so to speak.
When Conway’s listener explained this theory, Mrs Editor and I looked at each other and laughed out loud and agreed that it makes so much sense that it may well be true.
By the way, you can catch Tim Conway’s show on the internet or if you’re in Southern California on KFI 640 7 -10 p.m. Monday through Friday.”
The rules of political correctness as expressed at Penn State are exacting and explicit: You cannot make fun of, or imply that you’re making fun of any race, religion, ethnic group, sexual orientation, relative inability to drive a car, etc. Except, of course, if you’re a white power fanatic who praises Muslims who kill Jews.
America’s system of higher education is awash with political correctness, a stifling philosophy that stymies all types of political discourse.
The rules of political correctness as expressed at Penn State are exacting and explicit: You cannot make fun of, or imply that you’re making fun of any race, religion, ethnic group, sexual orientation, relative inability to drive a car, etc.
Except, of course, if you’re a white power fanatic who praises Muslims who kill Jews.
Then it’s ok.
Big Peace reports that one Penn State student, named Emerson Bogolly, who apparently studies in the wildly challenging Letters, Arts and Sciences department, wrote this little ditty about killing Jews entitled “When the Jew’s Blood Reds My Knife” and posted it on a radical Muslim website:
When the Jew’s blood reds my knife
Then my life is free from strifeHiding behind rocks and trees
I’ll find them with greatest ease
Make them get down on their knees
Slaughter them despite their pleasThrow them in the ovens hot
Soap and lampshades sold and bought
Made of the Jews that we shot
Mercy’s something I have notWith the bomb and machinegun
Blast at them and watch them run
We will have a lot of fun
Shoot and kill Jews one by one
The chorus is: We hate Jews, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. (OK. we made that part up.)
Young Emerson has also written ditties praising Osama bin Laden and other Muslim fanatics who specialize in killing, maiming, and harming Jews.
If he had expressed the same venom about any other race or religion, he would be packing up his Penn State sweatshirts, life-sized Joe Paterno cardboard cutout, and authentic SS uniform and heading out of the confines of Happy Valley. But since threatening Jews seems to be a core tenant of the Muslim faith, he’ll probably be tucked safely behind the protection of academic freedom for oppressed peoples.
Hell, they’ll probably give him a grant.
– Written by Sven Waring at DotPenn.com
Source: Big Peace
Obamacare hase never been popular, with support peaking at just 48 percent in November 2009. Today it’s slipped to 43 percent, numerically its lowest in ABC/Post polling.
President Obama promised Democrats that ObamaCare was the magic elixir that would make them invulnerable in last November’s elections. He said the bill would become even more popular as people learned what was in it.
A ABC/Washington Post poll has some very bad news for the President:
Coinciding with a federal judge’s ruling invalidating a key element of the health care reform law, an ABC News/Washington Post poll finds support for the landmark legislation at a new low – but division on what to do about it.
The law’s never been popular, with support peaking at just 48 percent in November 2009. Today it’s slipped to 43 percent, numerically its lowest in ABC/Post polling. (It was about the same, 44 percent, a year ago.) Fifty-two percent are opposed, and that 9-point gap in favor of opposition is its largest on record since the latest debate over health care reform began in earnest in summer 2009.
More also continue to “strongly” oppose the law than to strongly support it, 37 percent to 22 percent.
Nancy Pelosi said, “We had to pass the bill to find out what was in it.”
Unfortunately, what they found was that the American people don’t like it.
Source: ABCnews.com
Once again, no prizes other than the self-satisfaction you’ll get from posting the funniest caption for this inexplicable photo of President Obama.
Once again, no prizes other than the self-satisfaction you’ll get from posting the funniest caption for this inexplicable photo of President Obama.
Only one rule: Make ’em funny or we’ll send the Administrator over to your house to force you to watch Ed Schultz on MSNBC.
How far we’ve come since that Obama speech that drew 200,000 Germans who mistakenly thought JFK had been reborn in this fakir. Just two short years later he has become an object of derision.
How far we’ve come since that Obama speech that drew 200,000 Germans who mistakenly thought JFK had been reborn in this fakir. Just two short years later he has become an object of derision.
Der Spiegel Online has the details:
“Barack Obama was the biggest loser of 2010. He allowed the angry Tea Party movement to grow powerful, he did not pass any decent laws despite his majority in Congress and he was aloof, elitist and indecisive. He had to accept a formidable, yet entirely understandable, defeat in the midterm elections as a result. No one expected much from Obama, at least not during the rest of this year.”
“Now, just days before Christmas, Congress has ratified the New START disarmament treaty with Russia. … Will Obama build on this victory? Is it Obama’s breakthrough as a president? Will it mark his comeback as a reformer? … Is a new era of cooperation beginning?”
“The opposite is much more probable, namely that the disarmament treaty will be Obama’s last significant achievement for a long time. In January, the new Congress will convene. The new representatives who won in the midterm elections will come to Washington, including those Tea Party activists who have little interest in making compromises with Obama. With them, Congress will move to the right …. Possibly the only reason why so many Republicans voted for Obama’s law was because they themselves fear the new era and see few chances of passing sensible, bipartisan laws in the new Congress.”
If President Obama had any grasp on reality, he’d make that “L” shape with his thumb and forefinger and hold it up in front of his forehead.
Source: Spiegel.de
Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?
That pathetic sound you hear is Keith Olbermann whimpering over in the corner. The New York Times has undoubtedly devastated the left wing lunatic by naming someone else as this generation’s Edward R. Murrow.
We don’t want to get in the middle of this little spat, so we’ll just let the Times explain its own bizarre designation:
Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause?
And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?
… Though the scale of the impact of Mr. Stewart’s telecast on public policy may not measure up to the roles that Mr. Murrow and Mr. Cronkite played, Mr. Thompson said, the comparison is legitimate because the law almost surely would not have moved forward without him. “He so pithily articulated the argument that once it was made, it was really hard to do anything else,” Mr. Thompson said.
How dare they? Why, this is an insult to Olbermann, MSNBC’s self-styled heir to the Murrow legend. Look for him to demand satisfaction. A duel at sunrise, perhaps. The Times’ choice of weapons.
In lieu of a duel, we certainly expect the Times to be named Worst Person in the World. And they deserve that title.
After all, does Jon Stewart sign off his show by saying, “Good night and good luck” like Murrow did? No. Does Jon Stewart remind his viewers that he is the heir to Murrow’s courage and tenacity? No. Is Jon Stewart a pompous ass with no viewers? Oh, wait. That’s an entirely different subject.
Source: New York Times
How unpopular are the FCC’s new net neutrality regulations? Even liberal Senator Al Franken objects to this outrageous power grab. He took to the floor of the Senate to deliver a speech that sounded more like “Mr Smith Goes To Washington” than “Saturday Night Live.
How unpopular are the FCC’s new net neutrality regulations? Even liberal Senator Al Franken objects to this outrageous power grab.
He took to the floor of the Senate to deliver a speech that sounded more like “Mr Smith Goes To Washington” than “Saturday Night Live.” He lambasted Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachows’ proposed regulations.
“I sincerely hope that the FCC will make significant improvements before then,” Franken said, “and that each of the Commissioners will think long and hard before they vote to approve a proposal that could actually make things worse for all Americans.”
Hey, here’s an idea, Al. How about if the United States Senate actually takes its Constitutional responsibilities seriously and slaps down this bureaucratic fiat.
Nah, what are we talking about? That’s just crazy talk.
Ol’ Barney says that it would be discrimination if gays and straights are not allowed to shower together. Think of it as his own personal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Drop The Soap” policy.
A true story from the Editor’s past: A kid from France transferred to my high school. How a kid from France ended up in that godforsaken corner of California I don’t know, but that’s neither here nor there. Frenchy Boy was in my gym class. He got an erection every day in the showers. As a result, he had no friends and I began developing an intense Francophobia.
With that as background, let’s move on to the Barney Frank story.
Ol’ Barney says that it would be discrimination if gays and straights are not allowed to shower together. Think of it as his own personal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Drop The Soap” policy.
“To accept the principle that homosexuals can’t shower with other people is a degree of discrimination that goes far beyond this. We don’t get ourselves drycleaned. We tend to take showers when we go to the gym; when we play sports,” Frank said.
Note to Congressman Frank: Playing grab ass is not considered a sport.
New Zealand National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research has been forced to retract their phony temperature numbers for the past century. No warming has occurred in NZ since 1960.
New Zealand, home of the stunning glaciers and the soaring Southern Alps and eco-wackos galore. Yeah, that New Zealand, the pristine country whose scientists just came to a very inconvenient conclusion.
The Scoop New Zealand has the recalibrated reality:
New Zealand National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research has been forced to retract their phony temperature numbers for the past century. No warming has occurred in NZ since 1960.
NIWA has abandoned the official national temperature record and created a new one following sustained pressure from the NZ Climate Science Coalition and the Climate Conversation Group.
Does anyone have any idea if it would contribute to global warming if we tarred and feathered Al Gore?
H/T: Tim Blair
