He vetoed the bill and sent Ammiano and his fellow legislators a veto letter. Not just an ordinary veto letter, mind you, but an oddly-worded letter with a Da Vinci Code-like message that reveals the Governator’s true feelings.
California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano introduced a bill to help the Port of San Francisco with some financing issues. It sailed through both houses of the California legislature with little opposition and went to Governor Schwartzenegger for his signature.
But Arnold had other ideas. He vetoed the bill and sent Ammiano and his fellow legislators a veto letter. Not just an ordinary veto letter, mind you, but an oddly-worded letter with a Da Vinci Code-like message that reveals the Governator’s true feelings.
To decode Arnold’s message, just read down the first letter in each line on the left side of the letter.
While we can’t help but admire Arnold’s sentiment and ingenuity, we long for the likes of Harry Truman, who would have just come out and said what he meant.
This video clip has two newsworthy components. First, Valerie Jarrett attacked Fox News while being interviewed on CNN. Second, CNN’s Campbell Brown actually had the integrity to call her on it.
This video clip has two newsworthy components. First, Valerie Jarrett attacked Fox News while being interviewed on CNN. Second, CNN’s Campbell Brown actually had the integrity to call her on it.
Brown: Do you think Fox News is biased?
Jarrett: Of course they’re biased. (laughs)
Brown: Well, do you also think MSNBC is biased?
Jarrett: Well, you know what? This is…this is the thing. I don’t want to generalize and say Fox is biased or another station is biased. I think what we want to do is to look at it on a case-by-case basis. And when we see a pattern of distorition, were going to be honest about that pattern of distortion.
Brown: But you only see that at Fox News. That’s all that you’ve spoken out about.
Jarrett: That’s actually not true.
Well, yes, Ms. Jarret, that actually is true. Fox is the only network you’ve criticized and the only one you’re likely to criticize. Criticizing MSNBC would be like eating your own young.
Kudos to Campbell Brown. The “are you friggin’ kidding me” look on her face during the interview pretty much says it all.
The clip is now hosted on DailyMotion.com after YouTube disabled it, saying it had violated their Community Guidelines. Here’s what the violation notification said:
Sometimes people do get hurt and it’s inevitable that these events may be documented on YouTube. However, YouTube is not a shock site. It’s not okay to post gross-out videos of accidents, dead bodies or similar things intended to be shocking, sensational or disrespectful. If a video is particularly graphic or disturbing, it should be balanced with additional educational or documentary context and information
Apparently our video was too “shocking, sensational or disrespectful” for the delicate souls at YouTube. Watch it for yourself and we think you’ll agree that it’s neither shocking nor sensational, so they must have deemed it to be disrespectful. Call us crazy, but we thought the guy in the video who…uh…fertilized the plant was the disrespectful one. But we may be behind the times on what’s right and what’s wrong these days.
We apologize to the YouTube, their owner Google, and the eagle-eyed member of the multicultural citizen patrol who alerted YouTube to our insensitivity.
So as a public service, and to instruct everyone in the type of videos that don’t violate YouTube’s “shocking, sensational or disrespectful” guidelines, we would like to present the following selection of YouTube-approved videos. We’d issue some content warnings, but they have YouTube’s official seal of approval.
So what the hell. Continue to view (possibly NSFW)…
MSNBC’s ratings are in the dumper. Rachel Maddow just finished her lowest rated week ever. And poor Ed Schultz is now begging his radio audience to watch his TV show.
MSNBC’s ratings are in the dumper. Rachel Maddow just finished her lowest rated week ever. And poor Ed Schultz is now begging his radio audience to watch his TV show.
Here’s Ed groveling on his radio show the other day:
Schultz: We are trailing CNN for the month of October so we gotta get after it, Ed heads. We don’t want to lose, do we? Come on now. That’s the, the balloon boy really screwed me up. You know, it’s what happened! They cook up this balloon thing and we gotta cover it and everybody runs to CNN to the tune of three, four hundred thousand more people.
Now I gotta bust ass here to the end of the month to make sure we win this thing again! That’s what happens! That’s just the culture of it! I couldn’t find a political angle on the balloon thing, so that’s what hurt me, I guess, I don’t know.
The problem here, Ed, is that Balloon Boy coverage lasted just one day. How do you explain the rest of your miserable ratings?
Democrat cowards were hiding in another room and the Republican video exposes the truth as they attempt to sneak out a back door.
If there was ever a case that screamed “Corruption!”, it’s the Countrywide Loan scandal. As the Wall Street Journal reports:
Democratic staff for the House oversight committee informed their GOP counterparts today that the majority has changed the locks on the committee’s hearing room. While Republicans previously enjoyed their own key to the room, they will now have to request access from Democrats. This followed a bitter partisan argument in which Republicans refused to take down a video from their website that contradicted Dem explanations about a closed-door meeting on the Countrywide VIP loan scandal.
Background: The Democrats said they had to cancel the hearing because “too many members were in another committee hearing.” In reality, the corrupt cowards were hiding in another room and the Republican video exposes the truth as they attempt to sneak out a back door.
For some reason – and we certainly wouldn’t want to cast any aspersions, but encourage you to feel free to do so – the Democrats are very afraid of this Countrywide scandal and the subpoenas Republicans want to issue. They’ve done everything they can think of to put the kibosh on those subpoenas, but California Republican Congressman Darrell Issa has his teeth in this one like a bulldog on a bone.
Sounds like another Wife Swap encore is in order for this clever family. Either that, or a visit by Child Protection Services.
Yesterday in our story “Publicity stunt or coincidence? Balloon Boy has a video called “I’m Not Pussified,” we suggested that the story was a publicity stunt. But trying to be sensitive to the family, just in case we were wrong, we posed this as a question rather than a charge. Well, we were right. Just listen to not-so-crafty-after-all little co-conspirator Falcon cause his parents Richard and Mayumi to freeze in shock as he tells CNN’s Wolfe Blitzer that “We did this for a show.”
Sounds like another Wife Swap encore is in order for this clever family. Either that, or a visit by Child Protection Services.
Update: Here’s a clip of Wolfe Blitzer coming back to Falcon’s comment, gently asking for clarification. We’re no body language experts, but we’d say he knows he was busted big time. Given Wolfe’s performance on Celebrity Jeopardy last month, we’re lucky he even picked up on the slip.
Although it was originally reported that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after a unanimous vote, the final tally was actually a much close 3-2 vote.
Thorbjørn Jaglan, leader of Socialist International, KGB dupe, Barack Obama voter
Although it was originally reported that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after a unanimous vote, the final tally was actually a much close 3-2 vote.
The Conservative Party’s Kaci Kullmann Five and the Socialist Left’s Aagot Valle voted no.
The swing vote that broke the 2-2 tie and awarded the Nobel to Obama was cast by committee Chairman Thorbjørn Jaglan, President of the Storting.
Wikipedia (yeah, we know the problems with Wikipedia, but we’re quoting it anyway) says, “Since 1999, Jagland is also one of several vice presidents of the Socialist International. Jagland stated that the left wing in Norway does not use Socialist International enough. From 2000 to 2006, he chaired the Socialist International Committee on the Middle East, and he has outspokenly opposed the perceived presence of islamophobia in Western societies.”
They also said, “…a former Soviet spy described Jagland as a friendly politician during the 1970s and 80s. Jagland said he held diplomatic talks with the Soviet unions and that all the conversations were innocent exchanges between them.[14] He was classified as a ’confidential contact’ by the Committee for State Security (KGB).“
Well, surely, you say, President Obama can’t be held responsible if some foreign socialist wants to give him a multimillion dollar award. It’s not like he named a socialist to his administration or anything.
Not so fast.
E&E News reports that Carol Browner was also an official of the Socialist International until forced to resign due to negative publicity surrounding her appointment as Obama’s Climate Czar.
So now we know who thinks Obama deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. And we know whom Obama appoints to key positions.
So the only remaining question is how anyone could possibly believe this guy’s not a socialist.
“The guy responsible for more deaths than any other 20th Century leader is her favorite philosopher,” Glenn Beck raged. “How can that man be your favorite anything?
“The guy responsible for more deaths than any other 20th Century leader is her favorite philosopher,” Glenn Beck raged. “How can that man be your favorite anything? He killed 70 million people. That would be like me saying to you, “Hah. You know who my favorite political philosopher is? Adolf Hitler. Have you read Mein Kampf?”
By this time tomorrow, Keith Olbermann will name Glenn Beck the World’s Worst Person and quote him as saying that Adolf Hitler is his favorite philosopher.
John “Earmark” Murtha is the poster boy for corruption in Washington, DC. And this video demonstrates that he is quite willing to ignore Republicans, common courtesy and the Constitution.
John “Earmark” Murtha is the poster boy for corruption in Washington, DC. And this video demonstrates that he is quite willing to ignore Republicans, common courtesy and the Constitution.
Michael Moore may hate capitalism, but he’s learned a valuable lesson by making Capitalism. That is, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
Hey, Michael, how’s the box office for your latest movie?
Michael Moore may hate capitalism, but he’s learned a valuable lesson by making Capitalism. That is, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. Or its Hollywood corollary, you can lead a whore to water, but you can’t make her drink. But we digress.
What Moore has learned is that no one wants to see a film that calls for the destruction of a system that made it possible for that film to be made.
The total box office for “Capitalism” dropped 39% this weekend despite playing in an additional 33 theaters. This weekend’s total box office was a mere $2,700,000 and the total two week take is just $9,095,000.
Think about it this way: At $10 per ticket, that means only 270,000 people saw “Capitalism” this weekend. That works out to 271 people per theater. Figure three showings per day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, that means a sad, sad average of 30 people paid to see each showing of Capitalism.
Of course, this is Hollywood. So a documentary that’s full of lies and distortions that no one want to see, well, that’s surefire Oscar material.
We’re tired of all the talk about President Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize. Let’s talk instead about another fine, upstanding black man who has been unfairly denied the same honor for far too long.
Blah, blah, blah. We’re tired of all the talk about President Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize. Let’s talk instead about another fine, upstanding black man who has been unfairly denied the same honor for far too long.
We beg, we beseech, we implore, we demand that the Nobel Prize Committee right this long-standing wrong.
Give the damn award to Rodney King. And give it now.
“Pioneers of Tomorrow” is a sick, sick Hamas TV program for kids. Over the years, it’s starred a series of cute Disney-esque characters who teach Palestinian children about the glory of killing Jews and dying for Islam in the process.
“Pioneers of Tomorrow” is a sick, sick Hamas TV program for kids. Over the years, it’s starred a series of cute Disney-esque characters who teach Palestinian children about the glory of killing Jews and dying for Islam in the process.
Those cute, cuddly hosts always end up dying for their “noble” cause. (We’ve always hated Mighty Mouse and wished he would have met an untimely end, but we digress.)
Some unknown wit has put together this montage called “How Will He Die?” that lets you guess how each of the unfortunate characters went to meet his maker (and, we assume, 49 cute, furry virgins).
Consider this a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black Larry King being an idiot during an interview with Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
Consider this a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black Larry King being an idiot during an interview with Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
King: Would you want the Limbaugh, that crowd — would you want them to be your voice as the Republican Party stands in this country?
Bachmann: Well remember it’s who the American people are referring to Larry. And the American people are looking to voices like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck –
King: I just told you — it’s 2 percent of America. It’s 2 percent!
Senility is a terrible thing. Larry still thinks people watch his show.
Actress, singer and political wacko Bette Midler calls Glenn Beck “terrifying” and says “he’s like an old school demagogue.”
Actress, singer and political wacko Bette Midler calls Glenn Beck “terrifying” and says “he’s like an old school demagogue.”
Why, the next thing that’ll happen, according to Midler is that Beck’s hate speech will set off the kind of civil unrest they had in Rwanda. Because radio hosts caused that, you know. Evil, conservative radio hosts. Probably raaaaaaacists.
The third quarter isn’t quite over on the calendar, but it’s over in the world of ratings. Fox may have a lot to celebrate, but everyone else is wondering what the hell hit them.
CNN must be kicking themselves for letting Glenn Beck get away.
The third quarter isn’t quite over on the calendar, but it’s over in the world of ratings. Fox has a lot to celebrate, but everyone else is wondering what the hell hit them. Here are a dozen things that may surprise you about the latest cable news ratings.
1. A perfect ten. All ten of the top ten shows are on Fox News, powered by the O’Reilly-Hannity-Beck troika.
2. Beck kicks butt. Glenn Beck increased the ratings for his time slot a remarkable 136% over the third quarter of 2008.
3. Lucky 13. During September, Fox had the top thirteen programs in cable news.
4. Dominance. The O’Reilly Factor has now been the top-rated cable news show for an unprecedented 106 consecutive months.
5. Better and better. Fox News is the only cable news network to post across the board year-over-year increases.
“Hear our cry, Obama! Deliver us, Obama.” Pardon the expression, but good lord almighty. Now community organizers are praying to Obama.
“Hear our cry, Obama! Deliver us, Obama.” Pardon the expression, but good lord almighty.
Now community organizers are praying to Obama. The Gamaliel Foundation goes way back with Barack Obama and helped organize his early work in Chicago’s poor neighborhoods.
Suddenly, the video clips of school kids singing the President’s praises seem almost innocent by comparison.
President Obama has exactly the same smile in every shot. In fact, the man seems frozen in time. Like a mind-numbed robot. Like a cardboard cut-out. Like something from Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Like a Stepford wife.
This is just plain weird. There’s no other way to describe it.
All the other presidents, prime ministers, tin horn dictators, petty tyrants and grand poobahs wanted their photos taken with President Obama at the U.N. 130 of them lined up at a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
President Obama has exactly the same smile in every shot. In fact, the man seems frozen in time. Like a mind-numbed robot. Like a cardboard cut-out. Like something from Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Like a Stepford wife. Like…well…you get the idea.
Phelim McAleer took his camera to the premiere of Age of Stupid, a new “documentary” that claims flying is the single worst contributor to global warming. He asked the celebrities in attendance one simple question: Did you fly to the premiere?
This is funny, but of course, predictable.
Phelim McAleer took his camera to the premiere of Age of Stupid, a new “documentary” that claims flying is the single worst contributor to global warming.
He asked the celebrities in attendance one simple question: Did you fly to the premiere?
The results prove that global warming is also bad for freedom of speech.
This video shows school children being led in a song about The One. We’re not sure which bothers us more — the introductory group chanting of the name “Barack Hussein Obama” or the fact that it’s sung to the tune of “Jesus Loves the Little Children.”
“What the hell is wrong with those paranoid conservatives? Why would they object to the president of the United States speaking to school children? His speech was inspirational.”
Blah-blah-blah. Shut up, libs.
This video shows school children being led in a song about The One. We’re not sure which bothers us more — the introductory group chanting of the name “Barack Hussein Obama” or the fact that it’s sung to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” with some lyrics from “Jesus Loves the Little Children” thrown in for good measure.
Any other questions about why conservatives didn’t want Obama speaking to their children?
Update: Song Lyrics
Song 1:
Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
Yes!
Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama
Song 2:
Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say “hooray!”
Hooray, Mr. President! You’re number one!
The first black American to lead this great nation!
Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans
To make this country’s economy number one again!
Hooray Mr. President, we’re really proud of you!
And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!
So continue —- Mr. President we know you’ll do the trick
So here’s a hearty hip-hooray —-
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Update: Youtube removed the video, but we found another version and inserted it. Hopefully it stays.
Milwaukee residents lined up in the rain and waited hours for flu shots. Mike O’Keefe brought a sign that put the whole thing in perspective.
