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“Upfront costs complicate Obama’s health care plan”
Source: Associated Press via Earthlink
“Upfront Costs Could Overwhelm Initial Savings in Obama Health Care Plan”
Source: FoxNews.com
We’re willing to bet that “overwhelm” is a lot closer to the truth than “complicate.”
Harry Reid is apparently pissed off that people think Joe Biden is the stupidest man in Washington, DC. He wants to win the title back. So he fired off this gem.
What does this mean, Harry? They will not have paid their taxes? They employed illegal aliens. They are illegal aliens?
According to WSMV.com, “A resolution urging the creation of statues to be built on the Tennessee Capitol grounds of the state’s two Nobel Peace Prize winners, Al Gore and Cordell Hull, is on its way to a full Senate vote.”
This will not be the first time The Goracle has been honored with a statue.
Earlier this winter, during a particularly bitter cold snap, Fairbanks, Alaska businessman Craig Compeau commissioned this lovely 8-1/2 foot tall ice sculpture of the former Vice President and current scam artist.
Congratulations, Mr. Gore.
Source: WSMV.com via Drudge and Ecorazzi.com
Hollywood hates conservatives. The press hates conservatives. And the worst conservative on earth is Rush Limbaugh. And President Obama loves all that. Put all these ingredients together and what do you get? Comedian and actress Wanda Sykes at the the White House Press Corps dinner last night saying she hope Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys fail, to the delight and laughter of our free press, and of course, our tolerant and very sensitive president.
Oh we know, she was just kidding. The press crops were just a little tipsy. And the president was just politely smiling along with the joke. Can’t we conservatives just lighten up?
Angry, liberal (forgive us for the redundancy) Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wants to put private health care out of business. And she admits that Obama’s health care plan will do exactly that.
You may have seen this video in which she says:
“And next to me was a guy from an insurance company who then argued against the public health insurance option saying it wouldn’t let private insurance compete; that a public option would put the private insurance industry out of business. (cheers) My single payer friends, he was right. The man was right. Here’s what I told him. I said excuse me sir the goal of health care reform is not to protect the private health insurance industry. And, I am so confident in the superiority of a public health care option that I think he has every reason to be frightened.”
Well, last week the angry, liberal (damn it, we did it again) representative showed up on Fox News, put on a happy face and tried to downplay what she said on the earlier video.
Media bias being what it is, Fox News is the only network that put the angry, liberal (we can’t stop ourselves) representative on the air to put her hypocrisy on display.
If Michael Savage is right and liberalism is a mental disorder, we wonder if it will be covered by Obama’s healthcare plan.
Source: BluegrassPundit.com
Dustin Lance Black, the guy who wrote “Milk,” says he’s hopeful that California will name May 22 as Harvey Milk Day.
Here’s how WilshireAndWashington.com reported it:
After he testified on Wednesday before the state Senate’s education committee, the panel voted 7-2 to send the bill to the full Senate.
“We not only won the vote, but we actually got bipartisan support,” he said from San Francisco. “That was very exciting to me. I got a little misty eyed.”
Black told the committee of how, when he was 14 and struggling with being gay in a conservative environment, a theater director in the Bay area told him the story of Milk, the nation’s first openly gay elected official, and how he “stood up to prejudice and bigotry” and “lived openly as who he was.”
“The big point I made is I was one of the lucky kids,” Black said. “But why did it have to happen through luck?”
In a related move fully-supported by the Hollywood community, the writer of “Benjamin Button” proposed that “Old Guy With Young Chick Day” be declared in both May and December.
Source: WilshireAndWashington.com
Here at IHateTheMedia.com, we always think our glass is half full. We’re positive thinkers. We have sunny dispositions and smiles on our faces. We can’t wait to get up every morning so we can start enjoying another fabulous day.
Then we watched this video showing the growth of Islamic culture and the declining populations of western civilization. It scared the hell out of us.
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His wife’s making the rounds of the media reminding everyone that he’s a schmuck who cheated on her while she is dying of cancer. And now his mistress also realizes he’s a schmuck and is demanding a DNA test to prove he’s the father of her baby.
According to the National Enquirer, which refused to let this story die when the liberal media attempted to bury it:
Rielle Hunter – the longtime secret lover of the disgraced 2-time presidential candidate – wants definitive proof that Edwards is the father of her 14-month-old love child Frances and is working with a lawyer to take legal action, say sources.
The blonde divorcee – who gave birth in February 2008 – was slammed in the explosive new book Resilience written by the ex-senator’s cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth.
The story continued:
“Rielle – probably naively – now realizes she had held onto a false promise that if she continued to take part in the cover-up John had engineered, they’d be together in the future,” a close source told The ENQUIRER.
“She was willing to protect John for the sake of the child. She agreed to allow a crony of his to claim he was the baby’s father, and she even kept the name of the father blank on the birth certificate.
“But now she can see there’s never going to be a future with John – and she feels he’s lied about his promise to keep Elizabeth from trashing her in the book,” the insider divulged.
Have we mentioned that John Edwards is a schmuck?
UPDATE: Andres Young now says there is a John Edwards and Rielle Hunter sex tape
Source: National Enquirer
We all know the answer to that, don’t we? State and federal governments are addicted to the sales taxes that cigarettes generate. Without those tobacco taxes, they couldn’t keep building their house of cards.
At least the Chinese government is honest about it. Here’s how the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports it:
Officials in a county in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter of a million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being fined, state media reports…
Departments that fail to meet their targets will be fined, the report said.
“The regulation will boost the local economy via the cigarette tax,” said Chen Nianzu, a member of the Gong’an cigarette market supervision team, according to the paper.
Light up another ciggie, Americans. President Obama needs the money for another bogus social scheme.
Source: ABC via Tim Blair
This story hits the trifecta. It has liberal hypocrisy, media bias and remarkable stupidity all rolled into one.
The liberal hypocrisy? After being introduced by tax cheat Timothy Geithner, President Obama heaped praise on Harlem congressman Charlie Rangel for helping him close overseas corporate tax loopholes.
The remarkable stupidity? Rangel is being investigated for his own overseas tax scam.
The media bias? Have you seen it on the evening news?
Here’s how the New York Post editorialized about it:
Rangel, of course, knows a thing or two about offshore tax shelters: He’d been operating one for years.
The congressman had to fork over nearly $11,000 in back taxes last year after The Post reported that he failed to disclose more than $75,000 in rental income on his Dominican Republic villa.
Plus, he’s under investigation by a House committee for allegedly helping a company preserve its offshore tax loophole — in exchange for a million-dollar gift to a school named in his honor.
Though perhaps that’s not exactly what Obama meant when he gushed that the problems with tax havens “have been highlighted” by Rangel, among others.
This is perfect. We have tax vampire Barack Obama proposing the legislation, tax cheat Charlie Rangel writing the legislation, tax cheat Timothy Geithner enforcing the legislation.
Source: New York Post
Behold a few rare moments of candor from ABC’s Jake Tapper and the Examiner’s Julie Mason. They explain that Robert Gibbs is known as “The Gibnotist” for his ability to bore the hell out of people who are paid to listen to him speak.
“People have actually fallen asleep in his briefings,” Tapper says.
This may explain the increasingly contentious relationship between Gibbs and the press: They’re not fighting with him. They’re fighting to stay awake.
Source: Breitbart.tv
According to a report from the Director of National Intelligence, Democrat House Speaker Pelosi was fully-briefed on the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” way back in September of 2002.
Of course, this flies in the face of Pelosi’s subsequent statement that she knew nothing about waterboarding or any other “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
What? How could this be? A Pelosi spokesman said Madame Speaker thought the techniques were legal and, my oh my, she never knew waterboarding was used.
“As this document shows, the speaker was briefed only once, in September 2002,” the spokesman said. “The briefers described these techniques, said they were legal, but said that waterboarding had not yet been used.”
Pelosi wants to establish an independent commission to investigate anyone and everyone involved in the drafting the of interrogation methods. Everyone who has an (R) after their name, that is.
Question: How can you tell when Nancy Pelosi is lying? Answer: She moves her lips.
Source: FoxNews.com
The Saudi’s are putting on a little competition that may never rival the excitement of the Miss Universe pageant, but it does have a definite fervor about it. A religious fervor, that is.
Here’s how Associated Press described it:
Sukaina al-Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an Islamic veil, so no one can tell what she looks like. She also admits she’s a little on the plump side. But at Saudi Arabia’s only beauty pageant, the judges don’t care about a perfect figure or face. What they’re looking for in the quest for “Miss Beautiful Morals” is the contestant who shows the most devotion and respect for her parents.
”The idea of the pageant is to measure the contestants’ commitment to Islamic morals… It’s an alternative to the calls for decadence in the other beauty contests that only take into account a woman’s body and looks,” said pageant founder Khadra al-Mubarak.
“The winner won’t necessarily be pretty,” she added. “We care about the beauty of the soul and the morals.”
Too bad Perez Hilton wasn’t invited to judge the Saudi Miss Morality pageant. From what we hear, the Saudis are far less tolerant of gay marriage than Miss California is.
Source: Associated Press
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTME9ahQBWM Maybe that’s not precisely what he said, but he might as well have.
Turner appeared on Diane Rehm’s show and during a conversation on population control, Turner said the following, “We do have the example of China, and they’ve done it without, uh, draconian, as far as I can see, draconian steps.”
We would have said forced abortions fall into the “draconian” category, but it looks like we were wrong.
Turner quickly admitted that he didn’t know what he was talking about, which is something we’ve been waiting to hear for nearly 30 years.
Talk about wanting to be a fly on the wall. Wouldn’t you have loved to listen in on the dinner conversations Turner had with Jane Fonda when they were married?
Lunacy at its finest.
Source: HotAir.com
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) comes right out and admits it. She wants to see the American insurance industry destroyed. Just like President Obama wants to see the coal industry destroyed.
This is actually an ingenious one-two punch and the cornerstone of President Obama’s economic program. When the coal industry and all its CO2 spewing plants are eliminated, Americans will live forever and there won’t be any need for healthcare.
Deserts will flower. The streets will flow with milk and honey. And beautiful people will throw themselves at your feet.
Ain’t Obamanomics great?
Source: Tim Blair, Sydney Daily Telegraph
Wednesday’s show proved why Glenn Beck’s ratings are going through the roof. First he cornered a smarmy ACORN spokesman. Then he booted him from the studio during a commercial break.
Here’s how the Washington Examiner reported it:
ACORN National Spokesman Scott Levenson was ejected from a Fox News studio Wednesday following an off-camera altercation with host Glenn Beck that involved racially charged comments, as they were described by Beck.
“I threw him out of the studio, get the hell out of my studio,” Beck told viewers he said after Levenson accused him of being “afraid of black people.”
Beck told listeners after the break that Levenson was expelled from the studio after he accused the host of being racist. Levenson appeared on the “Glenn Beck” show to respond to criminal charges filed against ACORN employees in Nevada on Monday. The non-profit organization, formally known as the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now, is under investigation nationwide for voter fraud in at least 12 different states.
In his exchange with Beck, the ACORN spokesman insisted that individual employees were responsible for the violations but not the national organization. Beck was not persuaded by this defense and persisted in his questioning.
There seems to be a theme today here at IHateTheMedia.com. And that theme is, “If there’s no liberal media bias, why is Fox News the only network that exposes this kind of stuff?”
Scott Levenson looks like a fraud from the first moment on camera, which makes him the perfect spokesman for ACORN.
Source: Washington Examiner via BluegrassPundit.com
What’s that? These polls come from the impartial, highly-respected Rasmussen Reports polling organization? Impossible. They must be right wing extremists, too.
Generic Ballot: Republicans 40% Democrats 39%
Only 18% Say UAW, Government Will Do Good Job Running GM, Chrysler
42% Say Obama’s Supreme Court Pick Will Be Too Liberal, 41% Say About Right
75% Oppose Release of Guantanamo Inmates in the United States
71% View Obama as Politically Liberal
52% Say Notre Dame Made a Mistake Honoring Obama
Source: RasmussenReports.com
Thank God for politicians like Joe Biden and Howard Dean. Sometimes, the truth just slips out of their mouths, and when we are lucky, their words are recorded for the liberal media to ignore and conservative alternate media to shout out. Today, former Vermont governor and former DNC Charmain, Dean obliged.
We had CNBC on in the background as we were writing our IHTM stories this morning and heard Howard Dean telling talk show host Jason Lewis to “stop using his talk radio voice.” Our ears perked up and then we heard one of the most honest lines ever to come out of the mouth of a liberal lawmaker yet. Here’s what he said (minute 5:00):
“I think we’ve had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years.”
Remember when the media jumped all over McCain and Palin during the election for suggesting the left and Obama were socialistic? Well…
Can you imagine how embarrassed the Queen of England must be every time her dullard son opens his mouth?
Now the King of Hypocrites has enlisted a bunch of celebrities – including Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, the Dalai Lama, and soccer legend Pele – for a YouTube commercial that promotes Prince Chuck’s campaign to save the rainforest.
They all get together in a 90-second celebratory circle jerk to raise awareness for the need to stop tropical deforestation.
Just as this campaign was being launched, Prince Chuck, the lovely Duchess of Cornwall and their 14-person entourage flew a chartered private jet on a 16,400 mile round trip to Chile, Brazil and Ecuador to check out the rainforest for themselves. The whole shebang cost more than $450,000.
Hypocritical? No, no, no, no, no. Prince Chuck says he’s buying carbon offsets.
Anybody know where we can buy $450,000 worth of bullsh*t offsets?
Source: Earthlink
The first poll says, “The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 33% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-two percent (32%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +1.”
The second poll says, “The number of people who consider themselves Republicans declined slightly in April while the number of Democrats held steady.”
A margin of +1 is the lowest approval margin Obama’s had in his 100+ days. That, in itself, is bad enough. But it gets worse.
If the percentage of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats is up, yet Obama’s approval margin is down, that’s a bad combination for the President.
We see a simple way for President Obama to reverse this trend. Now that the government already owns Chrysler and General Motors, all the President needs to do is nationalize Foster Farms. Then he can deliver on Herbert Hoover’s promise of “A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.”
And it can all be done at the expense of the dozen people who still pay taxes.
Source: Rasmussen Reports
Where foreign policy and domestic policy merge into one.
Now the left is out to do anything they can to destroy this young woman. She’s a stupid bitch. She’s had breast implants. And now, now, now the left thinks they’ve hit the scandal goldmine.
“Dirty” photos.
Sadly for the left, the photos are about as dirty as the Sears catalog. In fact, they may actually have been in a Sear’s catalog.
“I am a Christian, and I am a model,” Prejean said. “Models pose for pictures, including lingerie and swimwear photos. Recently, photos taken of me as a teenager have been released surreptitiously to a tabloid Web site that openly mocks me for my Christian faith. I am not perfect, and I will never claim to be.”
The best they can do so far is photo that shows Prejean wearing nothing but a pair of panties. Her breasts are completely covered by her arm.
Yet media bias reared its ugly head when NBC’s Today Show refused to air the photos because they were too racy.
Hah! They’re about as racy as Katie Couric. Ooh, we take that back. We don’t even want to think about that. God, we wish we could wipe that thought from our minds.
Source: JammieWearingFool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sk1FoPJc0IWe’re living in historic times and there was another historic first for the Obama administration yesterday: an admitted tax cheat introduced a tax reform program.
Yes, the Obama administration announced a plan to reduce tax evasion by companies with overseas operations. And the plan was introduced by none other than Treasury Secretary “Turbo Tax” Timothy Geithner.
Media bias being what it is, we didn’t notice any of the mainstream media outlets actually reporting it this way. But the irony is so rich that you really have to wonder how they could have ignored it.
Here’s how Geithner introduced his Fearless Leader:
Mr. President, when you took office, you promised to reform our tax code so that it would be more simple and more fair for hard-working Americans. And you promised to ensure that our tax dollars would be used to strengthen the American economy, and American competitiveness. Today, we are taking another important step towards those goals by ending indefensible tax-breaks and loopholes which allow some companies and some well-off citizens to evade the rules that the rest of America lives by. We believe in a level playing field…the Internal Revenue Service, under the strong and able leadership of Commissioner Doug Schulman, are making an unprecedented effort to upgrade and strengthen enforcement capacity. The President’s budget will add up to 800 full-time IRS employees devoted to detecting and bringing to justice those who unlawfully hide assets and income.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Geithner.
Why pick on companies with overseas operations? Hell, Obama could probably balance this bloated pig of a budget if he merely got all the Democrats to pay their back taxes.
Source: NewsBusters.org
Apparently a crisis is now defined as anything important enough to wake Larry King up in the middle of his program.
Here’s how CNSNews.com describes the reality of the croup du jour:
So far this year, only one person–a baby visiting from Mexico–has died of swine flu in the United States, but more than 56,000 people died from the flu in the United States in 2006, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the CDC. In 2005, the flu killed 63,001 people here. But the deaths did not merit presidential statements or admonishments on hand-washing.
But it’s a crisis, damn it. The World Health Organization is already predicting a second wave of scratchy throats and we’re already predicting a second wave of governmental crisis mongering.
Source: CNSNews.com
