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Bush more popular than Obama, The One now ranks number two

bush_obama_walkingOur thanks for Newsbusters’ Noel Sheppard for this one.

According to the results of the latest Gallup poll, George Bush had a higher approval rating after one month in office than Barack Obama.

“For the first time since Gallup began tracking Barack Obama’s presidential job approval rating on Jan. 21,” the poll revealed, “fewer than 60% of Americans approve of the job he is doing as president…59% of Americans give Obama a positive review….”

In a similar poll conducted a month after President Bush’s first inauguration, his approval rating was 62%.

To repeat, Bush 62%, Barack Obama 59%. This thing is going down in flames faster than the Hindenberg.

Would someone please call Mount Rushmore and put the new Barack Obama addition on hold?

Religious leader Al Sharpton being followed by the IRS

budweiserWe may just run this same story every week and just change the name of the Democrat tax dodger. This week’s criminal is Al Sharpton. Excuse us, the Reverend Al Sharpton.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued subpoenas to Sharpton’s largest corporate donors. They say Sharpton, his various businesses and non-profit groups owe millions in back taxes.

Brewer Anheuser-Busch has received a subpoena as part of the IRS’ investigation of Sharpton’s National Action Network. The corporation admits that it “donated” between $100,000 and $499,000 to the group in 2007. Sources say other large corporate donors will also be subpoenaed.

As you would expect, the oft-indignant Sharpton called the subpoenas a “fishing expedition.”

Hey, Reverend Al, which commandment is it that says, “Thou shalt not pay thine taxes?” Is it the eleventh or fourteenth?

Oscar crisis: They’ve run out of colors for red carpet ribbons

whiteknot250x250Last night at the Oscars, they broke out white “knots” in support of gay marriage.

We can only assume that’s because white ribbons had already been used by too many other causes — safe motherhood, awareness of violence against women, teen pregnancy, and a host of others.

The fact is, there’s a colored ribbon crisis in Hollywood. Ever since this fad started with yellow ribbons for the Iran hostages, we’ve seen colored ribbon after colored ribbon supporting one cause after another. How are we supposed to know what cause they want us to support if each color supports multiple causes?

Are those black ribbons for the death of princess Diana, victims of Hurrricane Katrina, or melanoma awareness?

Are those blue ribbons for child abuse or prostrate cancer?

Do the green ribbons support for environmental causes or farm families?

And the purple ribbons. Are they for Alzheimer’s or epilepsy?

But here’s one thing we do know: The stars should have been wearing black-and-blue ribbons to support Rihanna.

How to spend blow $1,000,000,000,000

We’re pretty macho guys at IHTM, but this exchange scares the hell out of us.

Ranking House minority member Dave Camp (R-Michigan) quizzed Thomas Barthold, expert witness and Acting Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation, asking what benefits we’d get from the $1,000,000,000,000 stimulus bill.

Camp: Can you tell me, Mr. Barthold, how many jobs will be created as a result of this legislation?

Barthold: (gulps) Well, in short, Mr. Camp, uh…uh…I can’t.

Camp: So we don’t have an estimate on the number of jobs this would create, either private sector or public. We don’t have any estimate of the economic effect that this legislation might have on our economy, whether it would even create any growth in our economy at all. We don’t have that data before the committee today.

Barthold: (gulps, nods yes and shrugs)

Barthold’s “answers” made us weak in the knees. But contrary to rumors, we did not get the vapors. Not even close.

It’s the Turkish version of the Fairness Doctrine

flag_of_turkeyThe Turkish government has escalated its war on the free press to a new level by imposing a $500,000,000 fine on the Dogan Media Group, a Turkish publishing company. Dogan says it will fight the fine in court.

The Turkish Journalists’ Society has objected to the fine and called it a dangerous way to silence press outlets that criticize the government.

“Mr. Prime Minister’s anger caused by the news stories he disliked,” said a TGC statement, “has turned into a concrete attempt to silence (media) with the extremely high tax levy imposed on the Dogan Media Group.”

We know we have readers in Turkey, so rest assured that we’re watching our P’s and Q’s. A half a billion dollar fine could put quite a dent in our petty cash.

Source: Associated Press

Obama press secretary misses mood of country, disses Rick Santelli

The Obama administration has been hiring journalists left and right. But Rick Santelli probably shouldn’t bother sending over his resume.

At a White House press conference today, Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked for the president’s reaction to Santelli’s outburst on the floor of the Chicago commodities exchange yesterday. Two things stood out about his answer.

First he said everyone at the White House got a good laugh out of it.

Then he concluded his longer remarks by saying, “I’m sure Mr. Santelli doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

Every time Obama announces more of his “stimulus” program, the stock market plunges anew, announcing rather clearly that Wall Street thinks it’s Mr. Obama who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

UPDATE (4:15PM PST): Continue reading “Obama press secretary misses mood of country, disses Rick Santelli”

NASA exec tries to bore people into believing global warming

The same global warming proponents who used to bully people into submission are now attempting to bore them into submission.

James Hansen, the controversial NASA’s scientist and Al Gore toady, stars in a mind-numbingly dull new commercial promoting a March 2 protest at the Capitol Power Plant in Washington, DC. Continue reading “NASA exec tries to bore people into believing global warming”

Coalition of dictatorships says China is democratic wonderland

The U.N. Human Rights Council has just rejected allegations that China suppressed dissent, restricted free speech and repressed minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang.

In fact, China won praise from some of the world’s most oppressive regimes — including Sudan, Cuba, Iran, Burma, Egypt and Zimbabwe.

“There is no censorship in China,” a Chinese representative insisted. Then he added that Chinese citizens are free to worship and to follow whatever religion they choose.

Chinese envoy Li Baodong angrily stated that Western and Latin American nations that had raised allegations of abuse were merely politicizing human rights issues.

In related news, the U.N. Human Rights Council softball league announced that Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been voted Most Valuable Player and that Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafi was named Comeback Player of the Year.

Jerry Brown shows why he was nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam”

Jerry Brown has quite a resume: Jesuit seminary drop-out. Former California governor. Current California attorney general. World traveler. Lunatic.

During an interview last week, radio host Michael Savage brought up the Fairness Doctrine and observed that Brown sounded as if he favored state control over the media.

“Well,” Brown said, “a little state control wouldn’t hurt anybody.”

“If you have no views of one side, like in certain campaigns if somebody is attacking you, there’s got to be some room for the other side,” Brown continued. “It’s an attempt to balance, not to censor.”

This is why Jerry had to drop out of the Catholic seminary. He thought the Scientologists and Druids should have equal time every Sunday.

Octuplets’ PR agency aborts relationship

A Brentwood, California public relations agency has walked out on octuplets mom Nadya Suleman because its owners feared for their lives.

Joann Killeen, president of Killeen Furtney Group, says threatening emails and phone calls began flooding her firm as soon as its connection to Suleman was made public.

“They hope I die, they hope my business goes under, they want to rip her uterus out,” Killeen said. “They say I should be anesthetized and put down like a dog.”

The website Killeen created for Suleman received 55,000 e-mails, most of them negative. She also has piles of angry letters.

You might say Suleman’s litter was literally littered with problems.

Biden worships the water Democrats walk on

joe_biden_fingersThe only way Joe Biden can go a day without saying something really stupid is to stuff a sock in his mouth as soon as he wakes up in the morning. And that might not even solve his problem.

The verbally-challenged Biden thanked Democrats in the House of Representatives for passing the President’s $819 billion “stimulus” bill.

“In these uncharted waters,” the MixMaster of Metaphors said, “you stepped up in a big way.”

Then he startled damn near everyone in the room by continuing to talk about the bloated bill and saying there’s a “30 percent chance we’ll get it wrong.”

We just checked with our favorite Las Vegas bookie. He says there’s a 90% chance Obama will beat the living putty out of Biden before the 2010 midterm elections.

When do religious broadcasters want the Fairness Doctrine? When hell freezes over.

Christian Broadcaster Pat Roberson
Christian Broadcaster Pat Roberson

Chalk up another vote against the Fairness Doctrine – this one from religious broadcasters.

“If I happen to say declaratively that the Bible tells me that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, and nobody comes to the Father but by Him,” said Christian talk show host Janet Parshall, “I am not interested in giving equal time to Buddha, Hinduism, or L. Ron Hubbard.”

We generally think political speech is the target of the Fairness Doctrine, but the only broadcast license that’s ever been revoked belonged to a Christian station. In 1964, a Pennsylvania Christian station carried a program on which the Reverend Billy James Hargis criticized author Fred Cook. When Cook was refused a chance to respond, he reported the station to the FCC. The station’s license was eventually revoked.

Can’t wait to hear Teddy Kennedy’s response to the Ten Commandments.

John Kerry says he can spend your money better than you can

Democrat Senator John Kerry, who’s never earned a cent of his own money and who lives extravagantly on money his wife didn’t earn, thinks he knows how to spend the money you earn better than you do.

There’s no doubt that the Senator is a highly-trained professional with years of experience spending other people’s money, whether it belongs to his wives or his constituents.

We miss John Kerry since he retreated to the shadows. His comments used to be good for at least a laugh a week.

How much of that trillion dollar stimulus package is going toward Michelle’s wardrobe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gRnWbHyhckDuring the presidential campaign the media said Michelle Obama was just an average gal who found her neat, but inexpensive wardrobe by picking through the racks at Target like any other working mom.

But after the election was over, the truth came out. Michelle dumped Target in less time than it took Barack to dump tax-dodgin’ Tom Daschle.

The latest issue of Vogue features the new first lady on the cover and in a photo spread modeling a black dress by Narciso Rodriguez and a magenta dress by Jason Woo (who also designed her inaugural ball gown). All the outfits would have been taboo before November 5.

“I’m not going to pretend that I don’t care about it,” the First Lady said. “But I also have to be very practical. In the end, someone will always not like what you wear — people just have different tastes.”

Now we understand why Juan Williams caught so much flak for calling her “Stokely Carmichael in a dress.” He should have said, “Stokely Carmichael in a Jason Woo.”

Matthews says Obama’s like Fred Astaire, fantasizes he’s Ginger Rogers

Fred Astaire and Chris Matthews
Fred Astaire and Chris Matthews

Let us be the first to say it: Come out of the closet, Chris Matthews.

Matthews on-going Obama-erotic comments get stranger and stranger on a nightly basis. Now the host of MSNBC’s Hardball has compared Barack Obama to suave 1940’s dancer and heartthrob Fred Astaire.

“Yeah, he’s Fred Astaire out there,” Matthews enthused. “He is light-hearted, I mean he’s light, he still moves around with incredible alacrity.”

For god’s sake, Chris, this charade you’re living isn’t good for anyone. Just put on a nice, frilly gown and ask Obama for the next dance. Get it over with.

The team here at IHateTheMedia.com is behind you all the way. In a manly sort of way, of course.

Children charged with child porn

Remember when middle school boys liked baseball and cartoons and had only heard vague rumors of mysterious creatures called “girls?” Well, in case you haven’t noticed, times have changed.

Six Massachusetts middle school boys are right in the middle of a child porn problem. And they’re the perpetrators, not the victims.

One of the mini-pornographers snapped a nude photo of his completely compliant 13-year-old girlfriend, then forwarding the photo to his five buddies.

“The six boys, ages 12 to 14,” said the Boston Herald, “will be summoned to Falmouth District Court for a hearing to determine whether they should be charged with possessing, exhibiting or distributing child porn in the form of a text message photo, according to The Cape Cod Times.”

This new type of texting is referred to as “Sexting.”

No word yet as to whether any of the kids are Kennedys.

Story of Buffalo beheading has no legs

Three days ago in Buffalo, NY, Muzzammil Hassan sawed the head off his wife Aasiya Hassan — we’re going to say it — Islamofascist-style in a gift to the press that’s normally insatiable for this type of story. Ironically, Mr. Hassan is the founder of Bridges TV network, formed to improve the image of Muslim-Americans in the U.S. So where’s the story?

Conservative commentators knew there would be just token press, and they were proven right. If it were a Christian (or any non-media-protected group), it would have been all over television and print media. But, just three days out, and we see that not only does the poor wife no longer have a head, but the story has no legs. Continue reading “Story of Buffalo beheading has no legs”

Barbara Boxer more interested in the floor of her house than the floor of the Senate

barbara_boxerWe generally hate the media. But we love it when they actually do their job. For example, Roll Call’s Heard on the Hill column nailed Barbara Boxer for one of her recent actions.

Picture this. Al Gore is on the floor of the senate, rattling on endlessly about global warming and how the timebomb is ticking. Boxer stands up and walks out.

Did she leave to protest Gore’s vision of doom and gloom? To attend a vital committee meeting? To confer with the President about saving the nation’s economy? Continue reading “Barbara Boxer more interested in the floor of her house than the floor of the Senate”

Carter says he’s against the Fairness Doctrine. Is it senility talking?

Former President Jimmy Carter weighed in with his opinion of the Fairness Doctrine.

“Well, I liked it when it first came out,” Carter said, “because I was just a child listening to programs, and I liked to hear some limits on some of the programs. But no. As a matter of fact, when I was president is when we deregulated radio, television, all the communications and relationships, so I have not been in favor of perpetuating the Fairness Doctrine since I’ve been in politics.”

After Carter sat back with that trademark silly smirk on his face, an aide nudged him, then whispered in his ear.

“I just found out my friends Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won’t be covered by the Fairness Doctrine,” the former president is rumored to perhaps have said. “In that case, I’m against it.”

Wall Street Journal questions Obama’s selection of questioners

The selection is questioners at Obama's press conference was unusual, to say the least.
The selection is questioners at Obama's press conference was unusual, to say the least.

The press corps was gathered at the White House for President Obama’s first primetime press conference. They were on the edge of their seats, hoping to be called on by the Boy Prince.

The press conference started normally enough. Then, as the Wall Street Journal reports, the President started asking the questions.

Looking around the room for NBC’s White House correspondent, the President said, Continue reading “Wall Street Journal questions Obama’s selection of questioners”

Another Democrat stiffs the IRS: Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry

marion_barryMarion Barry’s never-ending melodrama took another turn yesterday.

Prosecutors asked a federal judge to send the former Washington mayor to jail for failing to file tax returns. Barry didn’t fail just once, mind you, but eight times in nine years.

He was originally given three years probation for failing to file returns between 1999 and 2004. Then, when he failed to file again in 2005, prosecutors tried to get that probation revoked. But Judge Deborah Robinson ruled that prosecutors hadn’t proven Barry “willfully” failed to file.

At that point, one would think this clown might be very careful about filing future taxes returns. But when 2007 rolled around, he once again failed to file.

Noting that Barry has now failed to file his taxes for the eighth time in nine years, prosecutors termed the former mayor’s conduct “indefensible.”

This guy’s a born Democrat. If he was Bill Clinton, he’d look straight into the camera and say, “I never had tax with that woman.”

Did the Chinese fake their space walk? Hmmmmm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us8xLsQ1MIE&eurl=http://presurfer.blogspot.com/We’re not conspiracy theory wackos. We absolutely believe American astronauts walked on the moon. Twelve of them on six different missions. They loped around, smacked golf balls, drove that little dune buggy, all that stuff.

But take a look at this video. It claims to reveal the truth behind the Chinese space walk. And it really makes you wonder if there was a little Sino-sleight of hand going on.

We hate the American media. They’ve proven they’re untrustworthy. But what’s this world coming to when you can’t trust the Chinese media?

Great News: Harry Reid says income taxes are voluntary!

Here’s an absolutely remarkable video in which Senate majority leader Harry Reid repeatedly explains to a dumbfounded interviewer that paying income taxes is completely voluntary.

Please keep in mind that Reid’s the guy in charge of getting the trillion dollar “stimulus” package through the senate. This is the guy who’s supposedly in charge of writing the tax code. And as far as we can tell, this must be the guy who served as Tim Geithner and Tom Daschle’s tax advisor.

We’d like to pause now to extend our warmest congratulations to Barbara Boxer. As a result of this video, there is now proof that she is no longer the dumbest member of the United States Senate.

Another Democrat senator wants the Fairness Doctrine back

Bill Press’ floundering radio show seems to be the place where Democrat senators go to say stupid things. Last week is was Senator Debbie Stabenow who wanted the Fairness Doctrine. This week it’s Senator Tom Harkin.

“…They are just shutting down progressive talk from one city after another,” Press said. “All we want is, you know, some balance on the airwaves, that’s all. You know, we’re not going to take any of the conservative voices off the airwaves, but just make sure that there are a few progressives and liberals out there, right?

“That’s why we need the Fairness Doctrine back,” Harkin responded.

We hereby propose the Congressional Fairness Doctrine. Here’s how it works. Each state gets two senators. If a state elects one stupid senator, an additional intelligent one would have to be appointed to serve simultaneously.

Only problem is New York, Massachusetts, and California would end up with four senators each.

Cafferty: Obama sticking pins in Nancy Pelosi doll

jack-caffertyCNN’s Jack Cafferty blames Nancy Pelosi for the Democrats problems. What problems? Didn’t we officially change the name of this country to Paradise on Inauguration Day?

“Democrats are squandering their advantage and threatening to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,” Cafferty wrote. “Under [Pelosi’s] leadership, House Democrats excluded Republicans from having any voice in crafting the stimulus package.”

“…Democrats busily loaded up the bill with stuff they had been unable to get for eight years…All while Americans lose their homes, their jobs, and their savings. It was both childish and disgraceful.”

“My guess is President Obama is busy these days sticking pins in his Nancy Pelosi doll.”

Our guess is President Obama also has a Chatty Joey doll. You pull the string and it says something stupid.

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