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Soupy Sales, one of the great comedians from the golden age of television, died on Thursday night. He was 83.
Soupy Sales, one of the great comedians from the golden age of television, died on Thursday night. He was 83.
We’ll miss Soupy, Pookie, White Fang, Black Tooth, Peaches and the rest of the gang.
When asked if it’s appropriate to be “working the umps” and saying Fox News is “not a news organization,” the President reassured the nation that he just doesn’t give the war on Fox any more attention than he gives the war in Afghanistan.
When asked if it’s appropriate to be “working the umps” and saying Fox News is “not a news organization,” the President reassured the nation that he just doesn’t give the war on Fox any more attention than he gives the war in Afghanistan.
“I think what our advisors have simply said is that we are going to take the media as it comes, and if media is operating, basically as a talk radio format, then, that’s one thing, and if it is operating as a news outlet, then that’s another, but I’m not something that I’m losing a lot of sleep over.”
If, however, some of the other pressing issues of the day do cause the President to toss and turn in the middle of the night, may we suggest that he turn on the TV and click over to Greg Gutfeld’s Red Eye. He’ll get a good laugh or two.
What’s that? It’s on Fox. Never mind.
No matter what WHO (the World Health Organization) wants to call it, this flu is far more political than pandemic.
No matter what WHO (the World Health Organization) wants to call it, this flu is far more political than pandemic.
As Forbes reports: “Nevertheless, because WHO dubbed this a “pandemic,” vaccination plans, emergency response measures and frightening predictions have been based on comparisons with true pandemics that by definition were especially severe. That includes the August report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology with its ‘plausible scenario’ of ‘30,000 – 90,000 deaths’ peaking in ‘mid-October.'”
Mid-October? We haven’t been out much lately. How high are the bodies piled up in the streets?
Source: Forbes
Coulter does that Coulter thing by telling Behar that every presidential assassin was a left winger. Behar does that Behar thing by stammering and stuttering.
The god awful Joy Behar show may avoid cancellation for a few more days if continues to book Anne Coulter.
Coulter does that Coulter thing by telling Behar that every presidential assassin was a left winger. Behar does that Behar thing by stammering and stuttering.
This may be the first time Behar’s show has actually been watchable.
President Obama tells seven lies in less than two minutes. Note: We’re confident that he could have smashed the old record had he not chosen to bask in the applause
President Obama tells seven lies in less than two minutes. Note: We’re confident that he could have smashed the old record had he not chosen to bask in the applause
– Written by Patrick Michael
hen the White House attempted to bar Fox from interviewing the Pay Czar, ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN said they would also decline to interview him if Fox was barred.
The Huffington Post is outraged – positively outraged – that the rest of the news media has risen up in support of Fox News.
Fox News Channel is twisting American politics in an unprecedented way, and too many members of the press still aren’t getting it.
The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war aimed at destroying the Obama administration and its progressive agenda.
That certainly does appear to be the case, because five other networks stood as one behind Fox News yesterday. When the White House attempted to bar Fox from interviewing the Pay Czar, ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN said they would also decline to interview him if Fox was barred.
We’ve criticized President Obama for taking so long to develop a strategy for the war in Afghanistan. But if the war on Fox is any indication of what happens when a strategy is rushed, take all the time you want on the Afghanistan thing, President Obama. All the time you want.
Source: Huffington Post
MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer introduced her guest by saying, “Joining me now to talk about this and the nation’s real problem of joblessness, the Reverend Al Sharpton.” Unfortunately for Brewer, she was interviewing Jesse Jackson.
This really is hilarious.
MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer introduced her guest by saying, “Joining me now to talk about this and the nation’s real problem of joblessness, the Reverend Al Sharpton.”
Unfortunately for Brewer, she was interviewing that other race baiting black reverend, Jesse Jackson.
“I’m Rev. Jesse Jackson,” he said.
“Right. I’m so sorry,” Brewer said. “The script in front of me said Reverend Al Sharpton. I’m looking at your face. I know who you are, Rev. Jackson, we all do. I’m sorry.”
Can you imagine the howls of outrage that would have gone up if someone at Fox had made this mistake.
“It’s an indication of the raaaaaacism that pervades Fox,” Reverend Jackson would have said. Or maybe it would have been Reverend Sharpton. We can never tell those two apart.
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Silly us. We thought that democracy meant allowing everyone a voice, not boycotting everyone that you don’t agree with. Guess we better start asking the butcher where he stands on the auto company bailout before getting our ribs this week.
The defenders of democracy over at Moveon.org are at it again. They’re putting together an anti-Fox petition, standing tall and defending the First Sissy President In History.
We’d say they were preaching to the choir, but they’d probably say we were violating the separation of church and state and call in the ACLU.
President Obama is fighting back against FOX. The White House communications director said FOX is a wing of the Republican Party…let’s not pretend they’re a news network.”
To draw attention to its biased coverage, President Obama will not appear on FOX for the rest of this year. Can you sign this petition asking Democrats to support President Obama’s stance by staying off FOX as long as he does?
A compiled petition with your individual comment will be presented to Democratic senators and representatives.
Silly us. We thought that democracy meant allowing everyone a voice, not boycotting everyone that you don’t agree with. Guess we better start asking the butcher where he stands on the auto company bailout before getting our ribs this week.
Source: MoveOn.org
– Written by Patrick Michael
According to the data, 49 States and the District of Columbia have lost jobs since stimulus was enacted. Only North Dakota has seen net job creation following the February 2009 stimulus.
At the risk of being called Republic tools (as opposed to the just plain “tools” we’re normally called), we quote directly from the Republican Ways and Means website:
The table below compares the White House’s February 2009 projection of the number of jobs that would be created by the 2009 stimulus law (through the end of 2010) with the actual change in state payroll employment through September 2009 (the latest figures available).
According to the data, 49 States and the District of Columbia have lost jobs since stimulus was enacted. Only North Dakota has seen net job creation following the February 2009 stimulus.
While President Obama claimed the result of his stimulus bill would be the creation of 3.5 million jobs, the Nation has already lost a total of 2.7 million – a difference of 6.2 million jobs. To see how stimulus has failed your state, see the table below.
1800 jobs in North Dakota. We have to admit we’re surpised. We didn’t know Indian casinos had that many blackjack dealers.
Here’s the chart, look up your state:
Continue reading “The good news: North Dakota adds 1,800 jobs. The bad news: the other 49 states lost jobs”
Since MSNBC is a real news organization – unlike Fox – it’s only natural that the White House should email Mika while she was on the air on Morning Joe.
Remind us again. Isn’t Mika the daughter of Mr. Mxyzptlk, Superman’s enemy from another dimension? But we digress.
Since MSNBC is a real news organization – unlike Fox – it’s only natural that the White House should email Mika Brzezinski while she was on the air.
And voila! Mika rolled over and played dead and delivered the White House’s talking points exactly as they had requested.
“The White House did just e-mail saying that interaction with Jake Tapper was not heated…”
Anita Dunn then placed a biscuit on Mika’s nose, where she obediently let it sit until she was given permission to eat it.
Obama sleeping like a baby, despite a full-blown White House war against Fox News. Can the guy ever stop lying.
Obama says he’s not losing sleep over Fox News. Uh huh. But while he’s sleeping, nightmares of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh dance in his head.
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.
You go, Darrell.
Source: Bluegrass Pundit
Those of you who think it’s absurd to compare American 2009 to Nazi Germany would be well-advised to read this chilling excerpt from a speech by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda
Those of you who think it’s absurd to compare America 2009 to Nazi Germany would be well-advised to read this chilling excerpt from a speech by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda:
“The newspapers today are filled with congratulations for Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler. The nuances vary, depending on the tone, character, and attitude of the newspaper. All, however, agree on one thing: Hitler is a man of stature who has already accomplished historically important deeds and faces still greater challenges. He is the kind of statesman found only rarely in Germany. During his lifetime, he has the good fortune not only to be appreciated and loved by the overwhelming majority of the German people, but even more importantly to be understood by them. He is the only German politician of the post-war period who understood the situation and drew the necessary hard and firm conclusions. All the newspapers agree on this.”
Sound oddly familiar? Let’s look at the same speech with just the names changed:
“The news media today are filled with congratulations for Barack Obama. The nuances vary, depending on the tone, character, and attitude of the news media. All, however, agree on one thing: Obama is a man of stature who has already accomplished historically important deeds and faces still greater challenges. He is the kind of statesman found only rarely in the U.S. During his lifetime, he has the good fortune not only to be appreciated and loved by the overwhelming majority of the American people, but even more importantly to be understood by them. He is the only American politician of any period who understood the situation and drew the necessary hard and firm conclusions. All the news media except Fox agree on this.”
It’s easy to imagine the latter version came straight from the fawning Obama coverage provided by ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and most newspapers and magazines.
But let’s face it. The scheiße would have hit the fan had Anita Dunn said Goebbels was one of her “favorite philosophers” instead of Mao.
We’re confident, however, that the Nazi Minister of Propaganda will surely be added to her short list as soon as she reads this quote.
Source: Calvin.edu via IHTM reader Thallus
Congratulations! You just won a Nobel Peace Prize! Anyone can win one.
“Linguistic experts have finally deciphered the exact meaning of the name Barack Obama – turns out it’s Kenyan for Jimmy Carter.”
Source: IOwnTheWorld.com
“Along with 50,000 other shivering fans we had to endure a scoreboard message from Robert Redford sponsored by the National Defense Resources Council demanding that we lower our standard of living to stop global warming.”
This brief item from Powerline is too funny to be ignored:
Last night I was at Yankee Stadium watching the Yanks exciting extra-inning playoff win. Along with 50,000 other shivering fans we had to endure a scoreboard message from Robert Redford sponsored by the National Defense Resources Council demanding that we lower our standard of living to stop global warming. The volume was turned on so loud that Redford’s voice could be heard above the howling wind and freezing rain of a mid- October evening in New York City.
As highly respected journalists, we feel compelled to correct one error in the story:
If we’re not mistaken, that howling sound was actually the death throes of the global warming scam.
Source: Powerline
In the world we live in, the one where we include Fox News among our news (sorry, Mr. Gibbs) sources, we would naturally think that much of the country is aware of the controversies of radicals in the Obama Administration.
In the world we live in, the one where we include Fox News among our news (sorry, Mr. Gibbs) sources, we would naturally think that much of the country is aware of the controversies of radicals in the Obama Administration. But, sadly, this is not the case. Reports of what should be huge news events, like the ACORN videos, Van Jones and Anita Dunn’s war on Fox are under-reported or not reported at all in much of the now-fringe media like ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and most newspapers.
For example, coverage of Anita Dunn’s praising of Mao ZeDong in an address to high school students was so unreported outside of Fox News that political insider, commentator and former counsel to Bill Clinton, Lanny Davis has never even heard of Dunn’s comments. The video from last night’s Hannity, shows Sean asking Davis what he thought of Mao being one of Dunn’s two philosophers she turns to most. Lanny smiled smugly and asked Hannity where he gets his information. In one of the better “gotcha” moments we’ve seen lately, Hannity then plays the video for him.
If political insider Lanny Davis had no idea of Dunn’s crush on the communist responsible for tens of millions of deaths just think how little the rest of the American citizenry knows.
A special note of thanks goes out to MediaMatters, who uploaded this video to Youtube, to go with an article not castigating Dunn, not making fun of Davis, but instead calling out Hannity for showing Davis a “cropped video.” The laughs never end, do they?
As world renowned promotional geniuses, we’d recommend that he offer a free pelvic exam with every car purchased. Or vice versa.
As world renowned promotional geniuses, we’d recommend that he offer a free pelvic exam with every car purchased. Or vice versa.
Source: MofoPolitics.com
Embarrassing. Turns out Democrat Steve Shannon, who’s running for Virginia Attorney General, doesn’t really know anything about the office for which he’s running.
Embarrassing. Turns out Democrat Steve Shannon, who’s running for Virginia Attorney General, doesn’t really know anything about the office for which he’s running.
Quick. Answer a question that wasn’t asked. Any question. Obfuscate. Dither. Change the subject. Even when the audience realizes exactly what you’re doing.
Then, just to make an uncomfortable situation even worse, have your staff harass pesky reporters who attempt to follow up on his answer. Or non-answer, as the case may be.
Vote for Steve. He’s the guy who doesn’t know anything about the office he’s running for.
Source: National Review
Joy Behar and her panel of so-called celebrities rip Glenn Beck a new one for daring to compare anything to the holocaust.
Joy Behar and her panel of so-called celebrities rip Glenn Beck a new one for daring to compare anything to the holocaust.
Behar was thinking, “Who does Beck think he is, Alan Grayson?”
Bonadune was thinking, “I wonder what Beck would look like in a dress.”
– Written by Patrick Michael
ABC’s Jake Tapper askes the White House’s Robert Gibbs about their calling Fox News “not a news organization.”
ABC’s Jake Tapper and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs at this morning’s White House press conference:
Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one –
(Crosstalk)
Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.
Tapper: But that’s a pretty sweeping declaration that they are “not a news organization.” How are they any different from, say –
Gibbs: ABC –
Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?
Gibbs: You and I should watch sometime around 9 o’clock tonight. Or 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Tapper: I’m not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a “news organization” — why is that appropriate for the White House to say?
Gibbs: That’s our opinion.
If only Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly could be more like others on at those hours, like Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews. Now those are news programs!
Source: Political Punch
On the off chance that Wolf’s appearance hadn’t caused CNN enough humiliation, Soledad O’Brien took her turn with the dunce’s cap last week.
Last month Wolf Blitzer embarrassed himself, his friends, his family and anyone he’s ever met with his pathetic performance on Celebrity Jeopardy. On the off chance that Wolf’s appearance hadn’t caused CNN enough humiliation, Soledad O’Brien took her turn with the dunce’s cap last week.
As is now expected for CNN anchors, she finished in third place with $6,200. Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar finished second with $8,800. Actor Michael McKean finished first with $24,800.
The Jeopardy board has 30 questions. The Double Jeopardy board has another 30. And Final Jeopardy has one question. That’s a total of 61 questions. Soledad answered eight questions correctly and three questions incorrectly.
Unfortunately, one of the questions she missed was Final Jeopardy.
And the Final Jeopardy answer: “Trees with biblical names include the Joshua tree & the world’s oldest tree, a 4,700-year old pine named for him. Soledad’s incorrect question was “Who is Moses?” The correct answer, of course, was “Who was Methuselah?” Of course, it would be foolhardy to expect anyone at CNN to be familiar with the bible.
This Celebrity Jeopardy gig isn’t working out too well for CNN. Maybe they should try Celebrity Wheel of Fortune next time.
Juan Williams and Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former NFL player and long-time friend of that raaaaacist Rush Limbaugh put the entire Limbaugh-NFL fiasco in perspective.
Juan Williams and Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former NFL player and long-time friend of that raaaaacist Rush Limbaugh put the entire Limbaugh-NFL fiasco in perspective.
One really interesting point of discussion is that Demaurice Smith, head of the NFL players union who denounced Rush, was a member of Obama’s transition team and formerly worked for Attorney General Eric Holder.
Make no mistake about it, Juan Williams is no one’s “house negro.” But he is Fox News’ house liberal.
We don’t want you to think we’re exaggerating this story. So watch the embedded video to the 2:15 mark. It’s un-friggin-believable.
We don’t want you to think we’re exaggerating this story. So watch the embedded video to the 2:15 mark. It’s un-friggin-believable.
Sure, it may show an Israeli soldier killing a sweet, smiling young Palestinian girl at point blank range, but what the heck. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says the controversial drama Ayrilik (“Separation”) will continue to air.
Davutoglu said the government really has nothing to do with the issue. No, no, no. It’s all up to the state run Turkish Radio and Television Corp, which airs the show.
“This is a matter to be evaluated entirely as part of their broadcast policies,” he said. “Turkey does not have censorship.”
Of course, this comes from a report from the state run Anotolia news agency in a story about the state run television network. But the state run Turkish government bears absolutely no state run responsibility.
Naturally.
Source: Haarretz.com
Who you gonna believe? The American media, which the White House admits it controls, or the independent, uncontrolled perspective of the foreign media?
“Why Joe is No Joke”
Source: Newsweek
“Joe Biden: the worrying rise of Barack Obama’s Mr. Wrong”
Source: Telegraph UK
Hmmmmm. Who you gonna believe? The American media, which the White House admits it controls, or the independent, uncontrolled perspective of the foreign media?
