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Congressman Joe Walsh bitch slaps MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, says “Your profession did not vet” Obama. We’re pretty sure Congressman Joe Walsh hates the media, too.

Obama full-month approval plumbs new depths. Rasmussen reports, “In August, the number who Strongly Approve of Obama’s job performance was at 21%. That’s down three points from 24% in July and the lowest level measured during Obama’s entire presidency. The previous low was 23% reached in both April and June of this year.” In the immortal words of Chubby Checker’s Limbo Rock, “How low can you go?”

Quote of the day: “Racists that they are, blacks voted for Obama because he’s black, not because he’s qualified.” Black author Kevin Jackson guested with Megyn Kelly and had that harsh response to Congressman Andre Carson’s assertion that Tea Partiers want to see blacks hanged from trees. This Jackson fellow is obviously a racist. Oh, wait. He’s black? In that case he’s obviously an Uncle Tom.

Ohio man arrested for having sex with inflatable raft. It’s even worse than you may think. According to the last line of the article: “Tobergta had been arrested at least five times for similar offenses, most recently in 2008….” Five times? If this had happened in California the raft would already qualify for palimony.

The weather makes a liar out of Al Gore and the Editor’s dad. Al Gore said we were headed toward a hot, dry desolate world where snow was a thing of the past. The Editor’s dad grew up in Montana and always said he moved to California “because August was the only month it never snows in Montana.” Oopsie. Accuweather says, “Snow started falling during the day Wednesday [August 31] in the Canadian Rockies and will continue in some areas across the northern Rockies of the U.S. early today. Enough cold air has arrived for snow to fall as low as 6,500 feet in Montana’s Glacier National Park….” Time for both men to readjust their thinking. That readjustment will be considerably tougher for the Editor’s father since he died in 1985. Gore, on the other hand, is still alive, although his credibility died sometime around 2001.

Tea Party vs. Green Party in Napa, California. Busloads of Tea Partiers descended on Napa, California last weekend and that sent the moonbats over the edge. The Green Party organized a counter-protest and promised a “massive anti-Tea Party rally.” Let’s just say that it wasn’t quite as massive as they’d hoped for. In fact, they could have held the rally in a phone booth.

Putting the comic in comic books: New graphic novel features Arianna Huffington. “Female Force: Arianna Huffington” is a new comic book that features highlights from the life of the Huffington Post publisher. For example, her time studying in England, her marriage to a closeted gay congressman, her preposterous campaign for governor of California and how AOL purchased her website for $315 million. We assume it glosses over the fact that AOL is now on the verge of bankruptcy as a result of that purchase.

George Clooney says Obama “is smarter than anybody you know.” Not so fast, Clooney. I know the self-made gazillionaire owner of an NFL team. And the CEO of a major international beverage company. And the worldwide marketing director for one of the world’s largest computer companies. And Bill Gates ex-girlfriend. And a guy who left Apple to start his own company and sold it a couple years later for $200 million. And the guy who created the “got milk” ad campaign. And the Administrator. I know the Administrator of IHateTheMedia.com, for god’s sake. They’re all really smart people and as far as I can tell, none of them have ever screwed up the world’s largest economy.

Maxine Waters strikes again: President Obama should tax “gangsta” banks out of business. Leftwing lunatic Maxine Waters held town hall event in Los Angeles. That’s where she said the president should “bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don’t come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes, that they’ve worked so hard for, we’re gonna tax them out of business.” Don’t you worry, Maxine, you and the President are on the same page.

Come out of the closet, Ed: MSNBC anchor impressed with Marco Rubio’s “pretty boy looks”. We’ve called Marco Rubio telegenic, but the macho Ed Schultz seems to think he’s “pretty”. Careful, Ed, that macho mask seems to be slipping just a little.

Cash for Clunkers: The new Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers’ biggest claim to fame. President Obama just nominated Princeton economist Alan Krueger to be chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers. Krueger’s greatest claim to fame was coming up with the ill-fated “Cash for Clunkers” program. The government bought thousands of cars, had no place to store them and no system in place to destroy them. So they rented abandoned Bush Stadium in Indianapolis and filled it with clunkers. Thousands and thousands of clunkers. As they say in the Obama administration, “It’s only money.”

Freddie Corleone redux: Obama sends Biden to Vegas. Just as Michael Corleone sent his dumb, weak, ineffective brother out to Vegas to do some “important” work for the family, President Obama sent Joe Biden to Glitter Gulch to speak to a clean energy summit. Joe said America can’t lead the world in the 21st century with its current energy policy. No word on whether he was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time like Freddie.

Solar company hyped by Obama goes belly up. Solyndra, the San Francisco Bay Area solar company that picked up a cool $535 million low cost loan from from the Federal government has closed its doors and locked out its employees. Next step, liquidation. Alternate headline: Green workers get pink slips.

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Photo of the Day: Slapped up the side of the head by reality. This might catch on. Some enterprising entrepreneur could probably make a fortune selling Obama dunce caps to voters who’ve seen the light. Wouldn’t you love to see an audience full of these at Obama’s next speech?

Euro bail-out in doubt as ‘hysteria’ sweeps Germany. The Telegraph UK reports that, “The seething discontent in Germany over Europe’s debt crisis has spread to all the key institutions of the state. ‘Hysteria is sweeping Germany,’ said Klaus Regling, the EFSF’s director.” Translation: The deadbeats in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy are starting to worry that the hardworking, thrifty Germans don’t want to support them.

Obama has a 70% approval rating. Oh, wait. That’s only among Muslims. His overall approval ratings may be crumbling, but according to the Pew Research Center, there’s one group that still loves them some President Obama. 70% of American Muslims think he’s doing a bang up job. NOTE: When we say “bang up” it is not meant to refer in any way to suicide bombings. Because that would be insensitive and we pride ourselves on our sensitivity.

Newsweek journalist is a little hazy on the concept of memoirs. Dan Stone appeared on MSNBC’s News Live to voice a strange complaint about Dick Cheney’s new memoir. “This book is very focused on rehashing. It’s very based on the past, from what I can tell.” Dan, buddy, books that take place in the future are called science fiction, not memoirs.

UCLA professor says only one thing keeps average state from voting like Texas or Tennessee: Media bias. And in the words of esteemed political analyst Gomer Pyle, “Surprise, surprise, surprise.” Unfortunately, even if you could strike media bias from the formula, the lunatics in California would still vote like Vermont.

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Robert Reich says America isn’t broke, but is imperiled by Fox News’ lies. When the former Treasury Secretary thinks that borrowing 40-some cents out of every dollar we spend is not a problem, that’s a problem. And when he thinks a cable news network is an even bigger problem than our spending, that’s an even bigger problem.

Martin Luther King’s daughter says Abraham Lincoln is remembered for signing the Declaration of Independence. Based on that theory, Lincoln was approximately 130 years old when he was sworn in as President. History was apparently not Bernice King‘s strongest subject in school.

Michigan Bar Owners Bounce Lawmakers to Protest Smoking Ban. Doug McIntyre, host of the nationally-syndicated Red Eye Radio said, “Who in the world ever thought that you wouldn’t be able to smoke in bars forty years ago? You try telling that to Humphrey Bogart as he walked around Casablanca with a cigarette hanging out of his trap. By the way, he died of lung cancer.”

“Perfect Storm of Hype: Politicians, the media and the Hurricane Irene apocalypse that never was.” We can’t take credit for that headline. It comes from the Telegraph UK. Isn’t a TV reporter standing amid raw sewage the perfect visual metaphor for this “crisis”?

Hilarious: MSNBC chooses former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin to discuss hurricane preparedness. And in other news, Bill Clinton is slated to discuss sexual harassment in the workplace and Al Sharpton will give a tutorial on syntax.

Worker kills 3-foot rat in housing project. Whew! What a relief! The story’s actually about a rat. When we read the headline we were afraid it was about Dennis Kucinich.

Why you should never, ever listen to Nobel Prize-winning New York Times Paul Krugman again. Ever. This August 2, 2002 quote is all you need to know about the sagacity of Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman: “To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.”