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Can you figure out what these dates have in common?

These are the recent nights on which CNN has finished 4th or worse in the cable news ratings. According to TVbyTheNumbers.com, the latest Nielsen TV Ratings are worse than ever for CNN.

The answer can be found at the bottom of the list.

4/20/10
4/19/10
4/16/10
4/15/10
4/14/10
4/13/10
4/12/10
4/8/10
4/7/10
4/6/10
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3/30/10
3/24/10
3/19/10
3/16/10
3/10/10
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3/4/10
3/3/10
3/2/10
2/26/10
2/19/10
2/12/10
2/11/10
2/10/10
2/8/10
2/5/10
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2/1/10
1/29/10
1/28/10
1/26/10
1/11/10
1/8/10
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1/4/10
12/29/09
12/28/09
2/24/10
2/23/10
2/22/10
2/18/10
2/17/10
2/16/10
2/15/10
2/3/10
2/2/10

These are the recent nights on which CNN has finished 4th or worse in the cable news ratings. According to TVbyTheNumbers.com, the latest Nielsen TV Ratings are worse than ever for CNN.

Flying the American flag upside down is a distress signal. Does the same thing work for logos?

CNN has finished 4th or worse during 50 nights in weekday primetime among cable news networks in the advertiser target adults 25-54 demo. That’s 61% of the weekday nights so far (the ratings “year” began 12/28/09). On nine of the weekday nights, CNN finished fifth (behind Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC and Headline News).

Nielsen doesn’t like us posting long lists with their ratings, but I don’t see how they can quarrel with a long list of dates. These are the dates on which CNN has finished fourth or fifth in the weekday primetime A25-54 demo.

Damn list is almost as long as the list of Larry King’s wives.

Source: TVbyTheNumbers.com

News flash: Nancy Pelosi rules out White House run

Unfortunately, this AFP story doesn’t reveal which reporter asked Pelosi the question, so we’ll never know if it was sycophantic idiocy or a joke.

Our current president is already a bit of a nancy. We don't need another one.

Unfortunately, this AFP story doesn’t reveal which reporter asked Pelosi the question, so we’ll never know if it was sycophantic idiocy or a joke.

At a press conference with reporters and children on “Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day,” Pelosi had been asked whether she would ever run for president given her years of political experience.

“No. I love the job that I have,” said the speaker, who is behind only Vice President Joe Biden in the US order of succession.

“I believe that one of the reasons that I do it with the success that I have is that my members know that I am here for them, for the House of Representatives, and I’m not thinking of another career path for myself,” she said.

“But I’m very proud to be the Speaker of the House. It is a great honor, especially being the first woman,” said the California lawmaker.

The odds of Pelosi running for president are about as high as Obama telling the truth about healthcare.

First, she would have to oppose a sitting President of her own party. Second, Pelosi’s 69 years old now and if she somehow got elected, she’d be he oldest President to ever asume office. And third, her current approval level bumps along in the low 30s.

Other than minor issues, it’s a damn fine question.

Source: AFP

Bush issues call for race war, wants “whites to stand together once again”

Oh, hold on a sec. It’s not Bush, it’s Obama. And he didn’t call for whites to stand together, he said, “It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again…”

Oh, hold on a sec. It’s not Bush, it’s Obama. And he didn’t call for whites to stand together, he said, “It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again…”

Our mistake.

But can you imagine the howls of mock liberal indignation and phony cries of “raaaaaacism” if Bush had said anything remotely similar to what Obama said?

Small riot breaks out among protestors. Democrats say, “Never mind.”

The Democrats have been warning us for months that those damn Tea Parties were time bombs ready to explode into violence. Well, the fuse burned down and the violence finally happened. Just not as predicted.

The Democrats have been warning us for months that those damn Tea Parties were time bombs ready to explode into violence. Well, the fuse burned down and the violence finally happened. Just not as predicted.

According to Fox News:

“The fight over (Arizona) Senate Bill 1070 took to the streets of downtown Phoenix, as riot Police were called to the Capitol to control an unruly group of protesters.

Witnesses say a group protesting against SB1070 began to fight with a man who was for the controversial immigration bill.

Police tried escorting that man away from the scene, fearing for his safety, when they too came under attack by people throwing items, including water bottles.

A young man was arrested during that melee.

Apparently, this outbreak of violence — which confirms the worst fears of those on the left — is no big deal because it was perpetrated by…you guessed it…those on the left.

And that automatically moves it from the dangerous and seditious category to the expression of free speech category.

Source: MyFoxPhoenix.com

Pelosi spends $140,000 to install energy efficient light bulbs in House cafeteria

That’s a great idea, you know, because those newfangled energy efficient bulbs will pay for themselves in no time. No time at all. What’s that? It’ll take ten years for them to pay for themselves. Oh, fer Christ’s sake.

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The lights are on, but nobody's home

That’s a great idea, you know, because those newfangled energy efficient bulbs will pay for themselves in no time. No time at all.

What’s that? It’ll take ten years for them to pay for themselves. Oh, fer Christ’s sake.

CNSnews.com reports the story:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a Capitol Hill press conference Wednesday to unveil new light fixtures in the House cafeteria. The light fixtures cost $140,000 and will take almost 10 years to pay off in saved energy.

Ten years. The payoff on this is going to take ten friggin’ years. Got that?  The story continues:

Ayers said that the new light fixtures and window shades were installed in the cafeteria, located in the basement of the Rayburn House Office Building, because the LED [light emitting diode] light fixtures have become much less expensive.

“It’s now becoming much more affordable, so we’re sort of kicking the tires on it for the moment. It seems to work terrific. It’s got great energy savings, and it’s got – we think – great lighting quality, and the price of the light fixtures just in the last year has come down significantly.”

Of course, we’re just swimming in spare cash right now, so this is the perfect time for Pelosi to blow $140,000 on light bulbs that will take ten years to pay for themselves.

Dim bulb. And make no mistake, when we say that we’re referring to the Speaker herself.

Source: CNSnews.com

Who says government jobs suck are not very good?

We used to think SEC stood for Security Exchange Commission, but now it’s been revealed may stand for Sex Every Chance.

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The SEC is giving a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Government employees hard at work."

We used to think SEC stood for Security Exchange Commission, but now it’s been revealed may stand for Sex Every Chance.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, “Just when it was beginning to repair its reputation with its high-profile case against Goldman Sachs, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suffers another major blow: Senior staffers there were surfing Internet pornography – as much as eight hours per day, in one case – when they were supposed to be policing the financial industry.”

Eight hours a day? We like naked women as much as the next government employee, but eight hours a day every day?

The article goes on to say “The investigation found 31 serious offenders over the past two-and-a-half years, 17 of whom were senior SEC officers with salaries ranging from $100,000 to $222,000 per year.”

Now, c’mon, don’t you feel just a little silly for watching porn for free all these years?

Fortunately, the Greatest President and Financial Wizard In History has deemed it time to give organizations like SEC more power and authority.

So now instead of having to surf the Internet, SEC employees can have live nude dancers at work and the guys making the big bucks can hang out in the VIP lounge (no cover charge, two drink minimum).

Lap dances, anyone?

Source: Christian Science Monitor

Perfect: Andy Stern leaves SEIU $85 million in debt, joins Obama’s Deficit Commission

SEIU Andy Stern left the union $85 million in the hole when he resigned. With credentials like that, it’s only natural that President Obama has appointed Stern to a position on his Deficit Commission.

This is one of those stories that makes it worthwhile for a blogger to get out of bed in the morning.

Andy Stern, Chief Thug President of the infamous Service Employees International Union, more commonly known as SEIU, left the union $85 million in the hole when he resigned.

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Thugocrat Andy Stern says, "And when I left SEIU, the deficit was thiiiiis big.

With credentials like that, it’s only natural that President Obama has appointed Stern to a position on his Deficit Commission.

The Washington Times reports the remarkable details:

Mr. Stern has claimed victories in helping pass health care legislation and getting President Obama elected, but his impact within his own organization shows gaping budget deficits and massive underfunding of pensions.

SEIU has seen its liabilities skyrocket during the past decade. The union’s liabilities totaled $7,625,832 in 2000. By 2009, they had increased almost by a factor of 16, to $120,893,259. Meanwhile, SEIU’s assets barely tripled, growing from $66,632,631 in 2000 to $187,664,763 in 2009. A significant portion of SEIU’s current assets are from IOUs from hard-up locals.

SEIU is $85 million in debt, down from its 2008 high of $102 million, and has been forced to lay off employees.

While SEIU’s pension plans were failing and its liabilities growing, Mr. Stern seemed more concerned with electoral politics than with the internal workings of the union. Indeed, politics can account for much of SEIU’s lavish spending in recent years. “We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama – $60.7 million to be exact – and we’re proud of it,” he boasted to the Las Vegas Sun last year. In all, under Mr. Stern, SEIU spent more than $85 million to elect President Obama and give Democrats control of Congress.

Your tax dollars are in good hands. Stern may be completely unqualified to reduce the nation’s budget deficit, but he is an Obama crony. And to be completely honest, something Stern will never accomplish, being an Obama crony is the only qualification he needs.

Source: Washington Times

Have you heard the one about the filthy, hook-nosed Jew bastard?

“In order to set the stage for my remarks,” General James Jones (Ret.), President Obama’s National Security Advisor, said, “let me tell you a borderline anti-Semitic joke.”

“In order to set the stage for my remarks,” General James Jones (Ret.), President Obama’s National Security Advisor, said, “let me tell you a borderline anti-Semitic joke.”

Perhaps we paraphrase. But barely.

Jones was giving the key note speech at a Washington Institute For Near East Policy when he told this joke, the point of which seems to be that Jews are cruel, greedy merchants.

Just imagine the howls of mock liberal indignation that would result if Rush Limbaugh or any other conservative had told this joke.

Sasquatch spotted in North Carolina woods

Now we have photographic evidence that Sasquatch has migrated across the country, seen this weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.

The top photo is the famous one taken of Sasquatch by Roger Patterson in the wilds of Northern California in 1967.

Now we have photographic evidence that Sasquatch has migrated across the country. The bottom photo was snapped this weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.

Oh, wait. This news just in.

Turns out the bottom photo is of Michelle Obama, not Sasquatch. But c’mon, man, anybody could have made the same mistake. Same size. Same shape. Same stride.

Sasquatch would have needed less retouching to be on the cover of this month’s Good Housekeeping, but other than that it’s pretty damn tough to tell the difference.

United Nations Environmental Ambassador building a 20,000 square foot mansion

“What kind of U.N. environmental ambassador builds a 20,000 square-foot home with a six-car garage, an elevator and a lagoon?” But we ask a different question: What kind of boneheads hire a jetsetting supermodel as an environmental ambassador and actually expect her to act like something other than a jetsetting supermodel?

That new 20,000 square foot house is only the second most impressive structure in Tom Brady's life

The Boston Herald asks, “What kind of U.N. environmental ambassador builds a 20,000 square-foot home with a six-car garage, an elevator and a lagoon?”

But we ask a different question: What kind of boneheads hire a jetsetting supermodel as an environmental ambassador and actually expect her to act like something other than a jetsetting supermodel?

Turns out the boneheads are the United Nations and the supermodel is Gisele Bundchen.

Bundchen and New England Patriots quarterback husband Tom Brady’s new home in Brentwood, California has greens seeing red.

The Herald reports the environmental fumble:

Continue reading “United Nations Environmental Ambassador building a 20,000 square foot mansion”

Sad news! ACORN is limping along on a paltry $4,000,000 a year.

Bertha Lewis, the chief executive officer for the group, said ACORN was getting by on about $4 million annually rather than its one-time $25 million budget and had reduced its staff to four, down from between 350 and 600 employees.

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Bertha Lewis spends $4,000,000 for four employees. We'd say the organization sounds a little top heavy.

Bertha Lewis is dumb as a rock for admitting this. And we hope we haven’t offended any rocks with that statement.

Associated Press reports the details of the organization’s dollar deficit:

Bertha Lewis, the chief executive officer for the group, said ACORN was getting by on about $4 million annually rather than its one-time $25 million budget and had reduced its staff to four, down from between 350 and 600 employees.

“We’re still alive. We’re limping along. We’re on life support,” Lewis said in an interview just after a government lawyer asked a federal appeals court to temporarily block a judge’s ruling that it was unconstitutional for Congress to cut funding to ACORN.

A $4,000,000 budget with a staff of four?

Who said socialism doesn’t pay?

Source: Associated Press

Stephen Hawking to Earth: Stop trying to contact aliens

Stephen Hawking thinks alien civilizations may well exist and warns that if we Earthlings know what’s good for us, we’ll stop trying to contact them.

We consider Henry Waxman to be convincing evidence that hideous, alien creatures are already among us

Stephen Hawking thinks alien civilizations may well exist and warns that if we Earthlings know what’s good for us, we’ll stop trying to contact them.

Hawking’s Discovery Channel documentary hypothesizes some very strange looking reptilian and aquatic creatures.

The Times UK amplifies the potential alien alienation:

Such scenes are speculative, but Hawking uses them to lead on to a serious point: that a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Hawking believes that contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity.

He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.”

He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is “a little too risky”. He said: “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”

Are you kidding? Apparently Hawking hasn’t seen the glitzy Indian casinos dotting the American landscape.

Thank Columbus. And roll the dice. Baby needs a new pair of shoes.

Source: Times UK

Tea for two dozen, but coffee for two hundred thousand

Consider this story to be an object lesson in media bias. Bias against conservative tea parties and in favor of liberal coffee parties.

Consider this story to be an object lesson in media bias. Bias against conservative tea parties and in favor of liberal coffee parties.

This is a typical photo of the handful of “coffee parties” that popped up in opposition to the success of the massive “tea parties” that were held from coast to coast. Nine people. Not what you’d call a big success.

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Yet here’s how Newsweek reported the story:

When Annabel Park imagined what it would be like to head a new national political movement, here is what she had in mind: a coming together of engaged, intelligent citizens who had tired of the angry rhetoric and accusations of the Tea Partiers; Americans of all political persuasions joining in a spirit of equanimity to discuss the nation’s problems, and maybe even share a laugh. It was this beautiful vision that danced in Park’s head on a recent Saturday as she made her way to Busboys and Poets, a cafe in Washington, D.C., for one of nearly 500 Coffee Party meetings taking place nationwide that day.

…All of a sudden Park was a political leader—of what, she didn’t quite know—and the target of right-wing fury. Conservative bloggers unearthed—scandal!—that she had once briefly worked for The New York Times and supported Sen. Jim Webb, a moderate Democrat from Virginia. One online commenter accused her of being a “Chinese agent.” The notoriety didn’t really hurt: the group now has more than 200,000 members, and every status update Park posts gets about a million views.

Got that? A handful of people at a handful of coffee parties is somehow extrapolated into a movement of 200,000.

And just for comparison purposes, here’s the CNN report that turned a tea party crowd of 20,000 people in Searchlight, Nevada into a mere “dozens or hundreds.”

Liberal media bias?

What do you think?

Source: Newsweek

Hillary’s southern accent explained: Blame it on migraines

Remember when Hillary visited Southern states during the Democrat primaries and suddenly developed a southern drawl? At the time, we accused her of pandering to her mostly black audience. Well, now we are issuing a complete and full apology to Ms. Clinton.

Remember when Hillary visited Southern states during the Democrat primaries and suddenly developed a southern drawl? At the time, we accused her of pandering to her mostly black audience. Well, now we are issuing a complete and full apology to Ms. Clinton.

It turns out there was a simple explanation after all. Migraines.

Breitbart.com explains the painful repercussions:

A British woman has suddenly started speaking with a Chinese accent after suffering a severe migraine, she said in comments quoted by British media Tuesday.

Sarah Colwill believes she has Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) which has caused her distinctive West Country drawl to be replaced with a Chinese twang, even though she has never even visited the country.

The 35-year-old from Plymouth, southwest England, is now undergoing speech therapy following an acute form of migraine last month which reportedly left her with a form of brain damage.

Hmmm. Brain damage. That may well explain not just Hillary’s southern drawl, but the entire liberal agenda.

Source: Breitbart.com

Bolivian president says eating too much chicken makes you gay

Sure, it sounds daft. But we say don’t dismiss Bolivian President Evo Morales’ theory too quickly. It may go a long way toward explaining why Colonel Sanders was such a spiffy dresser.

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Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales spoke to reporters after enjoying a delicious chicken dinner and midnight stroll in Tegucigalpa.

Sure, it sounds daft. But we say don’t dismiss Bolivian President Evo Morales’ theory too quickly. It may go a long way toward explaining why Colonel Sanders was such a spiffy dresser.

The Guardian UK has the deep-fried details:

Evo Morales has claimed that both homosexuality and baldness can be caused by the humble chicken.

Speaking at an environmental conference on Tuesday, Morales said chicken producers injected fowl with female hormones and insisted that “when men eat those chickens they experience deviances in being men”.

The Bolivian president since 2005 added that eating chicken could make men go bald.

Morales’s theories do not appear to have been immediately accepted by the scientific community, to put it mildly, and have been criticised by Spain’s National Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals, which sent a letter of protest to the Bolivian embassy in Madrid describing the president’s remarks as homophobic.

“Welcome to KFC. Would you like original, crispy, spicy or our new Brokeback Chicken flavor?”

Source: Guardian UK

Eugene is a hate-free zone. And also an irony free zone.

Sarah Palin gave a speech in Eugene, Oregon a couple days ago and was greeted by the city’s official welcoming committee.

As you can see, the pink sign in the foreground indicates that Eugene is a hate free zone. The sign directly behind it proves that it’s an irony free zone.

Notice that the pink sign is in the shape of a hand. A hand, get it. It’s supposed to be like notes written on the palm of a hand. Hahahahahahaha. Oh, god, that sophisticated left wing wit just cracks us up.

The editor of IHateTheMedia.com is a graduate of the University of Oregon (yeah, that journalism degree is really paying off now). He assures us that Eugene was full of left wing lunatics when he lived there and that it’s even worse now.

Screw you, Gene. (See, that was a clever way of saying Screw Eugene. Those lefty protestors aren’t the only ones who understand how to use that sophisticated wit stuff).

H/T: Hot Air

Hypocritical congressman’s Earth Day message: Trees make better drivers

In a pre-Earth Day speech before the Alliance for Community Trees on Wednesday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said that more trees lining urban streets makes people better drivers.


We should have expected Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat, to make his presence known on Earth Day. Hell, any time ol’ Earl spots a chance to say something ludicrous about the environment, he jumps at it.

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Democrat Earl Blumenauer, who rode his bicycle down a tree-lined street to Copenhagen

In a pre-Earth Day speech before the Alliance for Community Trees on Wednesday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said that more trees lining urban streets makes people better drivers.
 


“Having an urban tree canopy actually retards speeding,” said Blumenauer.
 

“The evidence is powerful that people, when they are given a streetscape with street trees, that can–it has an effect,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s calming or it changes the visual impact on them, but it changes driving behavior and makes those communities safer.”


Please bear in mind that we have nothing against trees here at IHateTheMedia.com. In fact, IHTM is headquartered in one of the loveliest tree-lined towns in America.

But Blumenauer is the same Oregon Congressman who proposed a tax on toilet paper to save our precious resources and then jetted off with Nancy Pelosi to save the world at the Copenhagen global warming boondoggle.

So Blumenauer’s the kind of environmentalist who says save energy, then wastes it by jetting off to Copenhagen. The kind of guy who wants to tax toilet paper, but knows he’ll never have to use any because his butt is kept spotless by a non-stop parade of environmentalists who kiss it clean.

Somehow, we figure that if this guy is promoting the importance of trees one day, he’ll propose a tax on leaves the next day.

Source: CNSnews.com

Socialist ACORN CEO says the tea party movement is more like a bowel movement

Is ACORN corrupt? Undoubtedly. Socialist? Absolutely. Classy? Not so much. Bertha Lewis pretty much proves all three in this short video clip.

Is ACORN corrupt? Undoubtedly.

Socialist? Absolutely.

Classy? Not so much.

Bertha Lewis pretty much proves all three in this short video clip.

President Obama invited us to go to camp. Please try to control your jealousy

Although we were honored to be invited by the The Greatest President In History, we couldn’t work it into our busy schedules. No, we were far too busy cranking out extreme rightwing terrorist propaganda here at IHTM HQ.

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Another group of successful graduates of Organizing For America's Weekend Re-education Camps

Although we were honored to be invited by the The Greatest President In History, we couldn’t work it into our busy schedules. No, we were far too busy cranking out extreme rightwing terrorist propaganda here at IHTM HQ.

Here’s the actual text of the email invitation:

From: Nicole Derse, BarackObama.com
Date: Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:39 AM
Subject: Camp OFA in San Luis Obispo
To: [email protected]

XXXX —

Wall Street reform. Electing folks who will support the President and fight for change. Working for a clean-energy economy. Protecting the progress we’ve already made, while still fighting for more.

These are just some of the battles ahead.

Will you be there with us? As we continue fighting for the President’s agenda and gear up for the elections in the fall, we need to make sure we’re all ready to organize as effectively as possible.

So we’re holding Camp OFA training sessions across the country, to make sure that OFA supporters like you have the skills you’ll need to make it happen.

You’ll hear from local community organizers, volunteers, and staff on the best ways to organize local events and build neighborhood teams, how to make the case for the President’s agenda for change, and what OFA is planning to do in the months ahead.

There’s one near you in San Luis Obispo on Sunday, April 25th — can you RSVP to join us?

Here are the details:
What: Camp OFA 2010 Training

Where: IBEW Local Union 639
6363 Edna Rd
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

When: Sunday, April 25th
Start Time: 4:00 PM

If you can’t make it to that training, see if there are others in your area.

No prior experience with OFA is necessary, but you’ll leave fired up and ready to power legislative and electoral victories in the coming months.

We won a big victory on health insurance reform — and it was because of you. Now let’s keep it going, and win the fights ahead.

RSVP today to join us in San Luis Obispo on Sunday, April 25th:

Thanks,

Nicole

Nicole Derse
National Training Director
Organizing for America

P.S. — Good news: Thanks in part to the tireless work of OFA volunteers like you in Florida, progressive champion Ted Deutch just won the first Congressional special election since health insurance reform passed.

You might want to sign up at Organizing For America, too, so you can get invited to future Obama Re-education Camps.

What could you and Tiger Woods have in common?

By now, you’ve probably seen or heard about the controversial Nike commercial that ran during Tiger’s “comeback” at the Masters. A creepy back-from-the-dead subconscious confrontation by Tiger’s philandering father: “Did you learn anything, Tiger?”

That’s the question asked on this poster at a mall in Southern California yesterday. That’s right. Yesterday.

LoveHateAdvertising (a cool new site run by one of our buddies and an occasional IHTM contributor) has the details:

Whatever it is, let’s hope it’s not contagious.

The captions almost write themselves. This ad used to be so innocent. So pedestrian. (It’s in an outdoor mall!)

Now because of circumstances beyond the advertiser’s control (Tiger’s lack of zipper control), the ad has taken on an unwanted double meaning.
It must be an old ad. It was up during the Masters tournament. It’s still up. (I just checked.)

By now, you’ve probably seen or heard about the controversial Nike commercial that ran during Tiger’s “comeback” at the Masters. A creepy back-from-the-dead subconscious confrontation by Tiger’s philandering father: “Did you learn anything, Tiger?”

Continue reading “What could you and Tiger Woods have in common?”

Gay softball team sued for rejecting switch hitters

Three bisexual men are suing a national gay-athletic organization, saying they were discriminated against during the Gay Softball World Series for being “not gay.”

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Gay shortstop settles into his position

Do they award Pulitzer Prizes for “Headline of the Year”? If they do, we’d like to say, “Thank you. Thank you very much.”

But let’s get on with the story from the Seattle Times:

Three bisexual men are suing a national gay-athletic organization, saying they were discriminated against during the Gay Softball World Series held in the Seattle area two years ago.

The three Bay Area men say the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance in essence deemed them not gay enough to participate in the series.

Not gay enough? Please explain.

The three plaintiffs — Steven Apilado, LaRon Charles and Jon Russ — played on a team called D2 that qualified for the 2008 Gay Softball World Series, which is organized by the alliance.

The alliance’s rules say that each World Series team can have no more than two heterosexual players. According to the lawsuit, a competing team accused D2 of violating that rule.

Each of the three plaintiffs was called into a conference room in front of more than 25 people, and was asked “personal and intrusive questions” about his sexual attractions and desires, purportedly to determine if the player was heterosexual or gay, the lawsuit alleges. The alliance has no category or definition for bisexual or transgender people in its rules, the plaintiff’s attorney said.

At one point during the proceedings, the lawsuit alleges, one of the plaintiffs was told: “This is the Gay World Series, not the Bisexual World Series.”

The alliance ruled the three men were “nongay,” stripped D2 of its second-place finish and recommended that the three players be suspended from participating in the World Series for a year, according to the suit.

The men are asking for $75,000 each for emotional distress. They’re also seeking to invalidate the alliance’s findings on the men’s sexual orientations and to reinstate D2’s second-place World Series finish.

Can’t we all just get along? After all, this is the only softball league in the world where every player looks forward to getting a groin pull. Where the squeeze plays happen in the dugout. Where every player wants to take one for the team. Where every player hits to the opposite field. Where the third base coach has a special sign for poking one up the middle. And, finally, where the manager has trouble putting together a line-up because half the players want to pitch and the other half want to catch.

Did we leave anything out?

Source: Seattle Times

Tea Party crashers crash and burn in Irvine, California

A couple of infiltrators showed up towards the end of a Non-Partisan Tax Day Tea Party rally in Irvine, California. It was pretty obvious they were hoping to make the rest of the attendees look bad by displaying their lack of taste for media cameras (Associated Press, LA Times and CBS were in attendance).

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This report just in from our Orange County, California correspondent:

A couple of infiltrators showed up towards the end of a Non-Partisan Tax Day Tea Party rally in Irvine, California. It was pretty obvious they were hoping to make the rest of the attendees look bad by displaying their lack of taste for media cameras (Associated Press, LA Times and CBS were in attendance).

The “bebe” girl had an innocuous Palin-esque “hopey changey” sign, but her preppily-dressed escort looked particularly out of place with his huge vulgarism mounted on a stick.

After the picture was snapped, the two were quickly confronted by some members of the audience, then called out from the stage by the speaker, who called them “party crashers” and said they represented the face of the “left”.

They then beat a hasty retreat, exiting stage left.

Everyone knows tea partiers are racist. Everyone except black tea partiers, that is.

Keith Olbermann said the tea partiers are racist. Frank Rich said the tea partiers are racist. The Huffington Post said the tea partiers are racist. Jon Stewart said the tea partiers are racist. But black tea partiers beg to differ.

Keith Olbermann said the tea partiers are racist. Frank Rich said the tea partiers are racist. The Huffington Post said the tea partiers are racist. Jon Stewart said the tea partiers are racist.

Oh, hell, it would be quicker to list the libs who haven’t said the tea partiers are racist. It’s just become part of their mantra.

But black tea partiers beg to differ.

H/T: Reason.com

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