Just to prove he’s a man of the people, President Obama took Joe Biden to a burger joint called Ray’s Hell Burgers yesterday. Unfortunately, the President wasn’t quite up to the task of acting ordinary.
Obama seemed lost. Didn’t know what to order. Didn’t know how to order. He did his best shuck and jive with the kid behind the counter, but was lost when it came to ordering.
Joe Biden, the Cheap Veep, quickly realized the lunch was a freebie, so he jumped right in front of Obama and ordered. “Swiss cheese burger, jalapeno peppers. Will you put ketchup on it or do we do that ourselves? And a root beer.”
When Obama finally ordered, he looked like he should have taken his teleprompter to lunch instead of Biden. “Alright…(PAUSE)…I’m gonna have a basic cheddar cheese burger…(PAUSE)…medium well…(PAUSE)…uh…(PAUSE)…I just want mustard. No ketchup…(PAUSE)…You got a spicy mustard or something like that? A Dijon mustard or something like that?”
Who the hell goes into a place called Ray’s Hell Burgers in a limousine and asks for Dijon mustard? It was very reminiscent of the intentionally elitist Grey Poupon commercials.
And guess what. When MSNBC and CNN showed tape of the President’s day at Ray’s Hell Burgers, they both snipped out the Dijon question. After all, neither network could allow the President’s elitist reality to conflict with his man-of-the-people image.
Here’s CNN’s version of the Elitist’s trip to Ray’s Hell Burgers. Hold the Dijon.
“Obama seems terribly uncomfortable hanging out with the little people. Maybe he should have invited his teleprompter instead of Joe Biden.
Monkey-bitin’ snakes? That’s not quite how we remember it in the theater.
Apparently, the new theory in Hollywood is that G-rated versions don’t even have to make sense. “Let’s just combine random words and use them in place of the original obscene phrases.”
Entering the British House of Commons is like jumping into a shark tank. If you bleed, you die.
This video clip shows British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s final moments before the House of Commons back on November 22, 1990. You can’t help but feel pride as she defends her brand of conservatism against the attacks of British socialists.
My god, she was a tough old dame. And we say that in the best sense of the word.
When will some young conservative to step up and become the next Ronald Reagan or Maggie Thatcher?
C’mon, we’ve never needed you like we need you now.
Damn, we feel a little guilty making fun of Tony Bennett. We want to forgive the guy for these stupid comments based on the fact that he’s 82 and possibly senile. But he’s never shown any evidence of senility until this video clip. So what the hell – he’s fair game.
Let’s just make this short and sweet. He wants you to support President Obama in anything he wants to do. Period.
President Obama wants to destroy capitalism? Tony Bennett’s behind him all the way.
President Obama wants to take over the banks? Tony Bennett says, “Right on.”
President Obama wants the government to warranty your new car? Tony Bennett says, “Gobama!”
President Obama wants to make Michelle Queen of New Jersey? Tony Bennett says, “When do I curtsy?”
Kent Brockman, apparent role model for most of the empty-headed reporters in America.
Oh, how we wish reporters would just do their jobs and report actual news. We’d much rather blog about surfing or Miss California or something more fun than the mendacious misadventures of Barney Frank.
Why do Americans have to go to other countries to find any serious reporting about the Obama administration?
In this case, it’s an obscure paper in Nova Scotia, Canada that had the gumption to print the 12 thought-provoking points below. Points ignored by the U.S. lamestream media amidst the fawning over Obama’s First 100 Days.
So while CNN blathers on about the First Family’s Portugese Waterdog and the Puffington Host analyzes The One’s table manners, we herewith reprint this “news on the most powerful man on Earth which has been deemed unfit to print” as found in Andrew Smith’s column “The Things You Don’t Read About Barack Obama.
Obama’s first two major bills alone, the “stimulus” and “omnibus,” cost nearly twice as much as was spent on Iraq over six years – $1.2 trillion vs. $650 billion.
Obama abandoned his campaign promise of “a net spending cut,” his first annual deficit – not counting bailouts – being three times the worst deficit under President George W. Bush.
Obama’s objective in his first G20 summit – commitments to spend our way to prosperity with massive stimulus boondoggles across the G20 – was rejected out of hand.
Obama’s objective in his first NATO summit – commitments to combat troops for Afghanistan from “our European allies,” which Obama and his party imagined were ready and willing to fight if only someone “enlightened” like him were running things – was predictably refused, with some more European non-combat contingents offered as a token.
Obama’s Defense Department announced cuts of $1.4 billion to missile defense, the day after North Korea test-fired its long-range, multi-stage ballistic missile.
Obama’s economics were criticized by Warren Buffet, whose endorsement had been candidate Obama’s highest economic credential.
Obama reversed the free trade Bush policy that had allowed about 100 Mexican tractor-trailers into the United States, which the Mexican government immediately used as an excuse to levy tariffs on 90 American goods amounting to $2.4 billion in U.S. exports.
Obama’s “tax cuts for 95 per cent” turned out to mean $13 a week from June to December, to be clawed back to $8 a week in January – as compared with President Bush’s 2008 tax rebates of $600 to $1,200 plus $300 per child, which were notably scoffed at during the election campaign by Michelle Obama.
Obama’s campaign promise of a $3,000-per-employee tax credit for businesses that hired new workers – repeated ad nauseam for weeks before the election – was discreetly retired even before inauguration day.
Obama abandoned his campaign promise that “lobbyists won’t work in my White House,” waiving his no-lobbyist executive order or conveniently re-defining his appointees’ past lobbying work to allow 30 lobbyists into his administration.
Obama abandoned his campaign promise to reform earmarks, signing the omnibus bill which contained 8,816 of them.
Obama took more money from AIG than any other politician in 2008 – over $100,000 – and signed into law the provision guaranteeing the AIG bonuses which later had him in front of the cameras “shaking with outrage” and siccing the pitchfork crowd on law-abiding citizens who had fulfilled their end of a contract and had their payment upheld by Obama’s own legislation.
The Chronicle Herald concludes with this thought: “The people need a Fourth Estate, not yet another adulator of Barack Obama, yet another smearer of Sarah Palin, yet another patrician editor to keep out anything disagreeable to progressive sensibilities, yet another laptop-and-latte journalism-schooler to spit on everything pre-dating 1968. And they wonder why the news business has come on hard times.”
You heard the man, all you ink-stained wretches. Inquiring minds want to know what the President’s really up to. Because what he says is not matching up with what he’s actually doing.
Source: ChronicleHerald.com via BluegrassPundit.com
Arlen Specter. If he was really two-faced would he have chosen that one?
You know the media bias is out of control when reliably-liberal Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz notices it.
Here’s what Kurtz said about the media’s coverage of Arlen Specter switching parties:
Correspondent Carl Cannon, on AOL’s new PoliticsDaily site, says conservatives are right in complaining that much of the media have “a double standard regarding party-switchers. . . . When Republicans morph into Democrats, we tend to act like they finally saw the light, and quote them ad nauseam about how the Republican Party has gotten too narrow, etc., etc.” But when a Democrat joins the GOP, “we concentrate on the tactical advantage to the party switcher.”
When it comes to commentators, their analysis often turns on the direction of the defection. In 1994, when Democratic Sen. Richard Shelby switched parties days after the Republicans won control of Congress, a New York Times editorial said: “Talk about slipping out of the hills to bayonet the wounded! . . . His desertion to the victorious Republicans this week was hardly a huge surprise.” But when Jim Jeffords flipped control of the Senate to the Democrats by leaving the GOP in 2001, the Times said approvingly that the Vermont lawmaker had given George W. Bush “an embarrassing lesson” for having pulled a “conservative bait-and-switch” on the country.
Arlen’s switches back and forth are not uncommon in nature.
Here’s how the New York Times describes a similar situation:
When a school of reef fish loses its single male, the largest female begins acting like a male within a few hours and will produce sperm within 10 days. Some other species repeatedly switch back and forth between the production of eggs and of sperm during a single mating. Among deep sea fish that only rarely encounter potential mates, reproduction is often possible only if one changes sex.
Poor Arlen. The only sex involved in his switch was when he screwed the Republicans.
King Barack. He wants to defend the downtrodden so much that he's doing everything he can to make more of them. Riverside, California has announced a new plan to buy foreclosed homes, fix them up, and resell them to “the needy.”
Naturally, the city’s using your tax dollars – $6.5 million made available by the Obama administration plus its own redevelopment money – to purchase houses, rehab them and sell them to first-time buyers.
“Where a lot of communities are trying to figure out how to spend the money, or offering purchase funds or down-payment assistance, we’re actually very hands-on with our program,” said a representative of the working-class community located about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
“We’re making the purchase, we’re overseeing the rehab, we’re overseeing the sale of the properties. We’re at the forefront of most cities or counties.”
Riverside says it’s just trying to “make a difference.” Problem is, what they’re doing doesn’t sound much different than the same old Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac-Chris Dodd-Barney Frank merry-go-round off of which we thought we just hopped.
“Wholesalers expect the New York Times to increase its price from $1.50 to $2.00 for Monday to Saturday editions and from $5 to $6 on Sundays. A spokeswoman declined to comment.”
C’mon, man, these geniuses have Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman on staff. Maybe they should ask him to explain the law of supply and demand someday at lunch.
The U.K. today announced the names if sixteen people banned from entering the the country. These are people that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said these are the sorts of nasty people that “Britain was not prepared to tolerate.” Among those named is America’s third most popular political radio talk show host Michael Savage, a personal favorite of the Administrator here (and boy is he pissed).
Isn’t Britain where Imams stand in the streets shouting Death to Jews?
George W. Bush was pilloried throughout his term by media detractors for his occasional malapropisms and verbal stumbles. One writer even published a collection of W’s gaffes in a book of “Bushisms”.
Will there be a book of Obamisms?
We’re not holding our breath, although there’s probably enough material already after the two-year-long campaign and only 100 days in office.
As the Associated Press reported:
Obama jumbled his words as he welcomed guests to the White House to observe the Mexican holiday, sending the crowd into laughter before he referred to the day correctly.
“Welcome to Cinco de Cuatro—Cinco de Mayo at the White House,” said Obama, in what appeared to be an attempt to note they were celebrating on the fourth of May instead of the fifth.
Cinco de cuatro means “five of four” in Spanish.
During the presidential campaign, Obama acknowledged his Spanish skills weren’t great.
And this is the same guy who last year was “embarrassed” that Americans traveling to Europe could only say, “merci beaucoup.”
Bush wasn’t our most eloquent president, but he at least had passable Spanish skills.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the Huffington Post from The Onion. They recently ran a story by Anna Post, great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post. It’s a perfect example of blind Obama worship.
In Anna’s eyes, there is nothing Barack Obama can do wrong. He is the perfect president, man, father, husband, and probably lover. (But based on the photo attached to the story, Anna’s kind of hot, so we’ll cut her a wee bit of slack.)
A credit to the women who raised him, the President uses his napkin to gently wipe his mouth. Children of America, take note!“Most public figures learn to dread what photographs might reveal about them, but President and Mrs. Obama make the grade as ambassadors for our country. Their exemplary manners are caught on camera repeatedly enough to clearly be habit and not just for show. After all, manners aren’t just for special occasions–though the Obamas attend plenty of those. The best manners come through seamlessly in the little things that make up everyday life….”
Anna shows many examples. And as far as we can tell, she thinks every photo ever taken of President Obama is proof of his perfection. For example, the photo and caption above.
But we think Anna hasn’t gone far enough. There are so many more examples of Barack Obama’s perfect manners that she could have shown in her short slide show. So please allow us to complete the job Anna Post began.
How does a terrorist mother choose which child to take to Paradise? According to the old saying, there are none so blind as those who will not see. And according to the new saying, there are none so nuts as those who will blow up their own children.
In this case, the left is blind. Because they refuse to see the insanity that guides our enemies.
Here’s how Jonathan Kay describes it in Canada’s National Post:
Having spent this morning catching up on my weekend reading, I came across this Page 4 article from Friday’s New York Times. Here’s the lead paragraph: “BAGHDAD — At least 80 people died and 120 others were injured Thursday in three bombings, one by a female suicide bomber in Baghdad who, Iraqi officials said, held a young child’s hand as she set off her explosives among a group of women and children receiving emergency food aid.”
We think this is one of the moderate terrorists President Obama wants to negotiate with. had she been one of the extremists she would have blown up her whole family.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding a study that will send researchers to six bars in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to interview both patrons and proprietors in an effort to discover what it is about those bars that may encourage homosexuals to drink and then have sex. The study, funded by U.S. taxpayers, began on Sept. 30, 2009 and runs through August 2010.
Here we go again. More government money being spent to teach people how to use condoms.
As anyone who’s read IHateTheMedia.com for more than a few seconds knows, there are no geniuses around here. But even the staff morons can figure out how to use a condom. And if they haven’t heard what the purpose of a condom is by the time they’re old enough to use one, they haven’t been paying attention to the liberal media.
In fact, we consider the fact that George Clooney hasn’t reproduced is proof positive that a moron can figure out how to use a condom.
The condom commercial is part of a larger program. Here’s how GetFreeCondoms.org describes it:
According to a study released 6/24/08 by PLoS Medicine, watching a video in an STD clinic waiting room can reduce the risk for a new STD by almost 10%. In a large multi-center intervention trial, Dr. Lee Warner from the Centers for Disease control and Prevention and a team of researchers at different institutions in the U.S. studied the effect of a carefully crafted, 23-minute waiting room video on the risk for new STDs among 40,000 patients in 3 STD clinics in the country. More information about Safe in the City can be found at the project’s website: www.safeinthecity.org.
Our favorite part of the video is the Barry White-like voice over. It’s like the CDC is taking a little walk on the wild side.
By the time Joe Biden's brain catches up with his mouth, the train has usually left the station. Joe Biden is a national treasure. Any objective analysis would rank him up there with Mark Twain and Will Rogers as one of America’s greatest humorists. Only problem is that Joe never intends to say anything funny.
The day after telling the Today Show he’s warned his family not to travel on public transportation because of the swine flu, Joe hitched a ride on Amtrak from Washington to Delaware.
Chagrinned Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano later said, “If he could say that over again, he would say if they’re feeling sick, they should stay off of public transit or confined spaces.”
And if President Obama could say it all over again, he’d probably say, “Anybody but Biden.”
Second wave? What’s we’ve had so far is more of a ripple than a wave. Maybe it was a bad translation and the headline really said, “U.N. wary of second ripple of flu.”
Pixie-ish Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leads supporters in a "Yes We Can" chant
You can’t make this stuff up. Drudge reports that Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to use Barack Obama’s “Yes We Can” slogan in his next presidential campaign.
Who knew Ahmadinejad was such a big fan of American political campaigns?
IHateTheMedia.com has discovered that Ahmadinejad’s campaign staff also looked into adapting slogans from several other American presidential campaigns before going with “Yes We Can.”
They considered using George Bush’s “Compassionate Conservatism” but thought the compassionate part might be a tough sell.
They thought about adapting Bill Clinton’s slogan but finally decided that “Building a bridge to the 13th century” wasn’t quite as catchy as “Building a bridge to the 21st century.”
Ronald Reagan said, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Ahmadinejad discovered that “Are you better off now than you were four hundred years ago?” didn’t test well in focus groups.
In 1960 Barry Goldwater’s slogan was “In Your Heart You Know He’s Right.” Ahmadinejad decided that “In Your Heart You Know He’s Nuts” was just too damn honest.
In the end, Ahmadinejad decided he wanted to be just like Obama so they went with the popular “Yes We Can.”
In other news, the Iranian leader announced that if Iran ever developed an auto industry, he would immediately nationalize it.
Former Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen supposedly said, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” That was obviously decades ago because billions are almost meaningless in today’s Washington, DC.
When President Obama sternly announced that he had ordered his cabinet to trim their budgets by $100,000,000, it sounded impressive. Lots of zeroes.
But in reality, $100,000,000 is truly a drop in the bucket. Here’s a great video demonstrating how truly insignificant Obama’s promise is.
Soon Obama will be wearing a T-shirt that says, "My grandma went to Mecca and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Looks like 2009 is going to be a big, big year for Sarah Obama, the President’s grandmother.
First she attended her definitely, positively, absolutely non-Muslim grandson’s Presidential inauguration in January. Now it’s been announced that she will attend the hajj. According to FreeDictionary.com, “at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba; for a Muslim the hajj is the ultimate act of worship…”
The Daily Times of Pakistan reports:
US President Barack Obama’s paternal grandmother, Sara Obama, will perform haj this year along with her son Syed Obama, a private TV channel reported on Saturday. According to the channel, Sara and Syed will also visit Dubai before going to Saudi Arabia for performing haj. Sara (85) is an active participant in welfare and charity programmes. The channel said performing haj is one of the most desired wishes of the US president’s grandmother. daily times monitor.
Grandma’s trip is being paid for by Kenyan property tycoon Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim, who will also accompany her on the Hajj.
There she was — the loveliest, most intelligent, most popular, most down to earth first lady who’s ever graced the White House – volunteering at a Washington, DC food bank.
Naturally, the press fawned over her fashion sense. She was wearing a J. Crew cardigan, an ordinary pair of Capri pants, and…what the hell…a pair of $540 sneakers by Lanvin.
These were no ordinary sneakers. No, siree. They were imported from France, made of suede, laced with grosgrain ribbons and featured metallic pink toe caps.
When reporters asked about the shoes, the First Lady’s spokesperson dismissively snorted, “They’re shoes.”
And that was that. End of story. Except for one thing.
During the Presidential campaign, however, it became a campaign issue when John McCain wore a pair $520 shoes. CNN devoted an entire report to McCain’s “Well-heeled campaign.” His shoes were used as evidence that he was out of touch with ordinary people.
We never bought this regular folks façade the press presses on Michelle Obama. And a pair of $540 seems to show that our cynicism was well deserved.
But what do we know? We’re wearing Nikes. They’re rubber and some sort of synthetic material. The laces are cotton. They set us back $29 down at the neighborhood discount sporting good store.
If it’s a perversion sick enough to deserve its own scientific name, the Democrats are for it. That’s the bottom line of their new hate crimes bill.
Impeached former judge and current Democrat Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings wanted to make sure everyone understood exactly which perversions were protected by the bill.
So he stood up in front of the Congress of the United States of America and reads off a list of “alternative” sex acts. A Republican amendment tried to exclude things like pedophilia and necrophilia from the hate crimes bill and that upset Hastings.
We’ve never heard of most of them (no, really, we haven’t) and it was apparent that Hastings hadn’t, either. But that didn’t stop him from supporting them.
“All Americans,” Hastings said, “regardless of race, color, religion, national origin…(at this point Hastings actually lists the specific perversions covered by the bill. We are unable to enumerate them here because we’ve never heard of most of them and have no idea how they may be spelled)…or all of these philias and fetishes and isms that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are.”
It was simply unbelievable to see a United States Congressman standing on the floor of the House of Representatives stating that these disturbing “philias and fetishes and isms” deserve protection.
Truth be told, there’s no telling what a person will find sexually stimulating.
Hell, Mary Matalin sleeps with James Carville and we can’t imagine anything more perverted than that.
Maricopa County prisoners model the latest fashions from famed Italian designer Joe Arpaio.
You gotta love Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. If he’d been around in the old west, he probably would have just pulled out his six shooter and solved problems with a little lead. These days, he has to use more civilized means.
Race monger Al Sharpton announced that he was going to lead a protest against Arpaio in an attempt to force his resignation. We’re not sure why Sharpton’s upset, but we don’t really care.
Here’s one paragraph from Arpaio’s hilarious letter to Sharpton:
Letter from Sheriff Joe to Al Sharton. Click to read in larger image.“Your public proclamation leads me to the conclusion: not only do you not understand Arizona; you also do not understand democracy. As the elected Sheriff who, so far has been elected to five consecutive four-year terms, I answer to the four million residents of Maricopa County. I do not answer to the whims of the media, or locally and nationally elected officials who want open borders and who have their own agendas. Nor do I answer to a publicity hound outside interloper who has demonstrated no interest in looking for the truth before making loud uninformed noises.”
And Sheriff Joe was just getting started. Read the entire kick ass letter for yourself by clicking the thumbnail on the left.
We pray that Sharpton breaks some law while he’s leading a protest in Phoenix. He’d look a lot better in one of Sheriff Joe’s pink jumpsuits than he does in those $2,000 suits he usually wears.
From CNSNews.com:
