Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, the mayor of Madrid, boasted of big reductions in air pollution since he had taken office in 2003 — unfortunately it was all an illusion.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in two years of doing whatever the hell it is we do here at IHateTheMedia.com, it’s that things are not always what they appear to be. Especially when it comes to environmental news.
Good news! Madrid's air has never been cleaner!
The Financial Times reports from Spain:
When Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, the mayor of Madrid, boasted of big reductions in air pollution since he had taken office in 2003, it seemed a moment for the city’s residents to celebrate an environmental breakthrough.
“Today we have better air quality in Madrid than ever before,” Mr Ruiz-Gallardón proclaimed.
Fabulous! That’s great news! Couldn’t be better! But it could be a bit, shall we say, misleading.
Unfortunately for him and for the 3.3m inhabitants of the Spanish capital, investigators concluded the improvements in air quality were an illusion.
The state prosecutor’s office found that in 2009 the Madrid municipality had quietly moved nearly half its pollution sensors from traffic-clogged streets in the city centre to parks and gardens.
This is, unfortunately, the way it is with environmental reporting.
One day we hear that a graph of the world’s average temperature has never been higher. The next day we learn that a huge number of weather stations in frozen Russia have been decommissioned and scientists say … well … ahem … perhaps so, but that surely has nothing to do with our funding … uhhhh … we mean … our results.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, “There are lies, damn lies and people getting federal grants.”
A marine unit got pinned down in the street in Tal Afa, west of Mosul in Iraq. They had a video camera mounted on the bumper of their armored HUM-V. The bad guys are hiding behind the white van parked just down the street.
Call us gruesome (you’ve called us worse), but this is one amazing video.
The background: A marine unit got pinned down in the street in Tal Afa, west of Mosul in Iraq. They had a video camera mounted on the bumper of their armored HUM-V. The bad guys are hiding behind the white van parked just down the street. Be aware that every time you hear a ping, it’s the sound of a bad guy’s bullet hitting the HUM-V.
Keep your eyes on the van when the Marine says they just fired the “rifle.” That’s military slang meaning an F-16 aircraft just launched a Maverick missile. You’ll hear the Maverick coming in and a split second later, see it send the bad guys off to meet their virgins.
End of story. For the bad guys, that is.
(We’ve watched this thing about a dozen times. Watch closely and you’ll see something fly up out of the frame after the explosion and fall back through the left side of the frame just before the end of the video. Is that Akbar?)
you can always count on the New York Post to come through with the best headlines on any story. Like this one on Hosni Mubarack.
When iOwnTheWorld.com runs the front page of the New York Post, you can consider it just another demonstration of their lack of creativity. When we do it, you can consider it an exposé of their lack of creativity.
Either way, you can always count on the New York Post to come through with the best headlines on any story. Like this one:
Former Minnesota Governor and expected but so far unannounced Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty delivered the best line at this week’s CPAC convention.
Former Minnesota Governor and expected but so far unannounced Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty delivered the best line at this week’s CPAC convention.
The Hill reports the laugher:
“I’m not one who questions the existence of the president’s birth certificate,” Pawlenty said.
Republican yukmeister and future Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty
The former Minnesota governor and possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate used that line as a set-up, though, to a larger jab at Obama.
“But when you listen to his policies, don’t you at least wonder what planet he’s from? On what planet do they create jobs by taxing the daylight out of people trying to grow jobs? On what planet do they try to reduce the deficit by spending even more? On what planet do they make healthcare better by putting bureaucrats in charge?” he said, according to prepared remarks.
We know the answer. We know what planet Obama is from and we’re surprised no one else has ever figured it out:
Michelle Antoinette appeared on the Tom Joyner morning radio show to promote her “Let’s Move” program. She tells Tom about what she calls a cute little trick. We call it teaching your kids to lie manipulate others and get what they want.
Michelle Antoinette appeared on the Tom Joyner morning radio show to promote her “Let’s Move” program. She tells Tom about what she calls a cute little trick. We call it teaching your kids to lie and to manipulate others to get what they want.
Here’s Michelle blathering on and on and on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw3wETtDDsk
The PSAs (public service announcements) we launched this week provide some really cute tips for parents and they’re going to start airing on the media, 33,000 media outlets over the next few weeks and they’re going to continue for several months. They give parents some cute tips. In one ad the mom makes the kid go up and down the stairs several times looking for her purse when she knows where it is – just making her go up and down and up and down the stairs a few times before she gets the dollar she’s looking for. So we have to be creative as parents particularly in the African American communities where, you know, we don’t have sports leagues, we don’t have…it’s not safe to play outside sometimes because our neighborhoods, you know, we don’t have the kind of safety net that we need. So we have to start sharing with each other some tips because there are communities all over the country that are running into these issues. We, as parents, have to get creative.
Don’t look now, Michelle, but your commercial shows a white mom and white kid in what appears to be an upper middle class home in what we assume is an upper middle class neighborhood. In your defense, however, it does show the white upper middle class mom getting just as much enjoyment out of deceiving her child as any black mom could ever get.
We picture the following scene in the White House:
Barack: “Hey, Michelle, could you run to the Lincoln Bedroom and see if I left my wallet up there.”
Michelle: (Panting) “It’s not up here, Barry.”
Barack: “How ‘bout you run over to the Oval Office and see if I left it there.”
Michelle: (Panting even harder) I don’t see it here, either.
Barack: “Never mind. I just found it in my back pocket.”
Michelle: (Gasping for air) “Hey, you tryin’ to say my ass is fat?”
Barack: “Just sayin’…”
Keith Olbermann’s last show on MSNBC was on Friday, January 21. Who would have guessed that he was the glue that held that network together? Without him, its ratings have fallen off a cliff.
Keith Olbermann’s last show on MSNBC was on Friday, January 21. Who would have guessed that he was the glue that held that network together? Without him, its ratings have fallen off a cliff.
Look at this comparison of ratings and audience size on Thursday, February 10 vs. Thursday, January 21, the day before Keith Olbermann’s sudden departure from MSNBC.
It shows that Fox has picked up huge numbers of viewers and CNN has picked up considerably fewer viewers, but MSNBC has absolutely imploded. Wow. It must be vodka and prescription drug time around 30 Rock.
Network
Show
Jan 21
Feb 10
(+/-)
Fox
O’Reilly
2,918,000
3,325,000
+407,000
Fox
Baier
1,940,000
2,335,000
+395,000
Fox
Hannity
2,079,000
2,293,000
+214,000
Fox
Beck
1,780,000
2,243,000
+463,000
Fox
Shep
1,786,000
1,936,000
+150,000
Fox
Greta
1,460,000
1,744,000
+286,000
MSNBC
8:00 PM
1,106,000
843,000
-267,000
CNN
Morgan
1,025,000
941,000
-86,000
MSNBC
9:00 PM
976,000
765,000
-211,000
MSNBC
10:00 PM
855,000
575,000
-280,000
CNN
Cooper
826,000
740,000
+86,000
MSNBC
6:00 PM
760,000
592,000
-168,000
MSNBC
7:00 PM
700,000
677,000
-23,000
MSNBC
5:00 PM
612,000
844,000
+232,000
CNN
Blitzer
524,000
1,036,000
+512,000
CNN
ParkerSpitzer
522,000
724,000
+202,000
Let’s analyze these numbers by hour rather than by host, because, quite honestly, we tried breaking it down that way but the shuffling of hosts made it almost impossible for us to comprehend our own analysis.
Keith Olbermann's word of the day is "scheudenfreude"
MSNBC 5:00 – This was the one bright spot for MSNBC. Matthews actually increased his audience from 612,000 on January 20 to 844,000 on February 10 for a gain of 232,000. It’s such a bizarre anomaly in the overall MSNBC disaster that we don’t quite know what to make of it. So let’s just say congratulations, Chris. It appears that you are now MSNBC’s biggest star. Of course, that concept must be driving MSNBC programming executives onto the ledges atop 30 Rock.
MSNBC 6:00 – When they call Cenk Uygur a temporary fill-in host, the emphasis is on temporary. He took Ed Schultz’ 760,000 viewers and turned them into 592,000 viewers. Losing 168,000 viewers is no way to get yourself a full-time gig, Cenkie.
MSNBC 7:00 – Many years ago the Editor had to attend a big quarterly board meeting in New York City. His office had miserable numbers and he dreaded having to report them to the New York bigwigs. He was seated to the immediate left of the Chairman of the Board. When it came time for each office to report it’s quarterly numbers, the Chairman started on his right and went around the table. One after another, each office manager reported worse results than the previous one had. By the time it got to the Editor, he was able to say, “Well, we aren’t making what we’d hoped for, but we’re still turning a slight profit” and the room erupted in applause simply because the numbers sucked less than everyone else’s. That’s the position Chris Matthews finds himself in. The bad news? He lost 23,000 viewers. The good news? Everyone else at MSNBC lost a lot more.
Ed Schultz is red-faced and angry about the ratings. Oh, wait. That's just his normal appearance and has absolutely nothing to do with the ratings.
MSNBC 8:00 – Keith Olbermann’s numbers were nothing to brag about, but O’Donnell makes him look like a ratings god. The time slot has gone from 1,106,000 viewers with Olbermann at the helm to a meager 843,000 with O’Donnell. Career enhancement opportunities do not follow losing 267,000 viewers in 30 days.
MSNBC 9:00 – So much for those tall tales of Rachel Maddow’s star power. Without Olbermann as her lead-in she lost 211,000 viewers.
MSNBC 10:00 – Poor Ed Schultz was convinced that the only thing keeping him from success even bigger than his head was a better time slot. So in the wake of Olbermann’s departure, MSNBC moved him from his 5:00 fringe-of-prime time slot to the much-coveted 10 pm slot. The audience responded by pretending Ed was a sinking ship and they were rats. Not only did Ed attract 185,000 fewer viewers at 10 pm than he did at 5 pm, but he also managed to lose 280,000 of the viewers that Lawrence O’Donnell had attracted when he filled the 10 pm slot. Nice work, Ed. We would have said that was impossible, but you proved us wrong.
“What we will be doing is ignoring the people’s business of creating jobs and frankly putting ourselves in the role of a clogged toilet,” said Sheila Jackson Lee.
Some readers may say we’ve gone too far by calling Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee a piece of crap. But we’d say our only mistake was in cleaning up our language. Trust us, we’ll remedy that situation at the end of this story.
Sheila Jackson Lee is a one-woman Dumb-A-Thon
TheHill.com has the details:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said Friday that House Republicans were blocking the proper functioning of the lower chamber by debating a bill instructing committees to give closer scrutiny to regulations.
“What we will be doing is ignoring the people’s business of creating jobs and frankly putting ourselves in the role of a clogged toilet,” said Lee. “That means we are doing nothing. We are stuffed up.”
This is, of course, the same Sheila Jackson Lee who once asked a NASA administrator if the Mars Pathfinder had taken a photo of the flag planted there by Neil Armstrong. The same Shelia Jackson Lee who said that South Vietnam and North Vietnam are two separate nations now living peacefully side-by-side. The same Sheila Jackson Lee who once took a cell phone call in the middle of her own town hall meeting.
It’s no wonder Sheila Jackson Lee is concerned that Republicans are turning Congress into a toilet. You always fear a toilet when you have shit for brains.
All the Southern Democrats are becoming Republicans. Joe Lieberman became in independent. And anyone else who still calls himself a Democrat has become a socialist. That pretty much leaves the centrist DLC with no potential members.
All the Southern Democrats are becoming Republicans. Joe Lieberman became in independent. And anyone else who still calls himself a Democrat has become a socialist. That pretty much leaves the centrist DLC with no potential members.
Lindsey Graham and John McCain celebrate their election to the Democrat Leadership Council
Politico.com has the specifics:
The Democratic Leadership Council, the iconic centrist organization of the Clinton years, is out of money and could close its doors as soon as next week, a person familiar with the plans said Monday.
The DLC, a network of Democratic elected officials and policy intellectuals had long been fading from its mid-’90s political relevance, tarred by the left as a symbol of “triangulation” at a moment when there’s little appetite for intra-party warfare on the center-right. The group tried — but has failed — to remake itself in the summer of 2009, when its founder, Al From, stepped down as president. Its new leader, former Clinton aide Bruce Reed, sought to remake the group as a think tank, and the DLC split from its associated think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute…
The DLC is already showing signs of disrepair. Its website currently leads a Harold Ford op-ed from last November, titled, “Yes we can collaborate.” It lists as its staff just four people, and has only one fellow. Recent tax returns weren’t immediately publicly available, but returns from 2004-2008 show a decline in its budget from $2.6 million to $1.5 million, and a source said funding further dried up during the financial crisis that began nine months before Reed took over.
Don’t close your doors yet, DLC. There’s still hope. If you want four eager new members, go talk to John McCain, Susan Collins, Olympia Snow and Lindsey Graham. We’re pretty sure they’d love to join your organization.
Biden alert! Biden alert! The Vice President, the man who sits a mere heartbeat away from the Presidency, is very worried that your children will end up being seized by some heretofore unknown ring of international child slave traders.
Biden alert! Biden alert! The Vice President, the man who sits a mere heartbeat away from the Presidency, is very worried that your children will end up being seized by some heretofore unknown ring of international child slave traders.
Joe has a point. He just can't remember what it is at the moment.
In support of President Obama’s bid to “win the future,” America’s most famous Amtrak rider, Vice President Joe Biden, issued a stern warning about U.S. competitiveness in the high-speed rail game: “If we don’t get a grip, folks, they’ll not only be teaching us, they’re gonna own our kids.”
The “they” Biden is talking about are all the other countries in the world who are developing or expanding high-speed rail systems, including China, Japan, Spain and France.
Joe’s point is that he wants us to spend $53 billion on bullet trains that we can’t afford. Since the government will be taking all our money to pay for these hairbrained utopian schemes, the foreigners might as well take our kids. We certainly won’t be able to afford them any longer.
Questioning the Chairman on Capitol Hill last week, Republican Paul Ryan got Bernanke to agree that the best way to generate growth in the economy is to cut spending. Direct question, very direct answer.
President Obama may want to spend another $53 billion on high speed trains and other nonsense, but even the Chairman of the Fed knows this madness cannot go on forever.
Questioning the Chairman on Capitol Hill last week, Republican Paul Ryan got Bernanke to agree that the best way to generate growth in the economy is to cut spending. Direct question, very direct answer.
But then Ben said, “I’d really love to answer more questions, Congressman Ryan, but I’m working swing shift on the printing press tonight and I really have to get going. George Soros gets very angry when I’m late.”
OK, well, maybe he didn’t say it, but we’re pretty sure he was thinking it.
This unfortunate headline from the Gloucestershire Echo in the United Kingdom raised a few eyebrows. The headline on the Echo’s website has now been changed to read, “Girls’ schools still offering ‘something special’ says headteacher.”
This unfortunate headline from the Gloucestershire Echo in the United Kingdom raised a few eyebrows. The headline on the Echo’s website has now been changed to read, “Girls’ schools still offering ‘something special’ says headteacher.”
Headteacher? Isn’t that taking the concept of sex education just a little too far?
French President Nicolas Sarkozy took a short break in making love to the world’s most gorgeous First Lady on Wednesday to join a growing chorus of world leaders who have condemned the miserable failure otherwise known as multiculturalism.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy took a short break in making love to the world’s most gorgeous First Lady on Wednesday to join a growing chorus of world leaders who have condemned the miserable failure otherwise known as multiculturalism.
This story is just another cheesy excuse for us to run another photo of Carla Bruni. How do you say "Hubba hubba" in French?
AFP has the uni-cultural details:
“My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure,” he said in a television interview when asked about the policy which advocates that host societies welcome and foster distinct cultural and religious immigrant groups.
“Of course we must all respect differences, but we do not want… a society where communities coexist side by side.
“If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community, and if you do not want to accept that, you cannot be welcome in France,” the right-wing president said.
“The French national community cannot accept a change in its lifestyle, equality between men and women… freedom for little girls to go to school,” he said.
“We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him,” Sarkozy said in the TFI channel show.
As we reported the other day, the leaders of Great Britain, Germany and Australia have also condemned multiculturalism recently.
In a recent speech before the US Chamber of Commerce the President did not miss the opportunity to claim that he’d hold the economy hostage until companies agreed to share the benefits of a healthy economy with workers.
In a recent speech before the US Chamber of Commerce the President missed a perfect opportunity to apologize for accusing them of taking foreign money for questionable purposes. Apparently at the time of his insinuation he had gotten their ledgers confused with his with own.
He did not, however, miss the opportunity to claim that he’d hold the economy hostage (through an insane tax code and inhibiting American exports) until companies agreed to share the benefits of a healthy economy with workers. In the words of the President:
“If we’re fighting to reform the tax code and increase exports, the benefits cannot just translate into greater profits and bonuses for those at the top. They have to be shared by American workers, who need to know that opening markets will lift their standard of living as well as your bottom line,”
Do yourself a favor and go straight to the 7:00 minute mark. Forcing yourself to watch the speech in its entirety comes perilously close to self-inflicted cruel and unusual punishment.
With unemployment hovering around ten percent, cost of living outpacing salaries by lengths, collateralizing the labor of unborn generations and the proposed destruction of the U.S. dollar through “quantitative easing,” it appeared that Obama had every intention of being uncharacteristically true to his word.
Of course, we can’t completely disagree with the President. At least not in this instance. We want the working and middle classes to have a higher standard of living and more money in their bank accounts as well.
That is why we are so sincerely imploring the man to greatly increase the wages of nearly every American worker by taking one very simple step: Stop confiscateing their money.
Good luck trying to follow Ed Schultz’ explanation of why Christina Aguilera screwed up the national anthem at the Super Bowl. In poor Ed’s twisted mind it had something to do with Fox.
Good luck trying to follow Ed Schultz’ explanation of why Christina Aguilera screwed up the national anthem at the Super Bowl. In poor Ed’s twisted mind it had something to do with Fox.
And it goes downhill from there.
Seriously. It sounds as if Ed’s teleprompter died somewhere in mid-monologue, so he just started rambling and telling a story about his 8-year old son that had no real point.
Don’t worry, Eddie. We suspect that you’ll soon you’ll have lots of free time to spend with the little tyke.
Sonny Boy Reagan, the Great Man’s youngest child, is here to set those liberals straight. His father was brilliant. At least that’s the way we interpret this story.
Since the day Ronald Reagan first burst upon the national scene, liberals have insisted he was a dunce. On the opposite end of the spectrum, they’ve told us ad nauseam that Barack Obama is the most intelligent human being who’s ever drawn oxygen.
Ronald Reagan says, "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah."
Sonny Boy Reagan, the Great Man’s youngest child, is here to set those liberals straight. His father was brilliant. At least that’s the way we interpret this story.
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: Amid the remembrances of Ronald Reagan in marking the 100th anniversary of his birth, one of the former president’s sons has an unlikely comparison in mind between his father and a current political figure.
Asked who is more like his father — President Obama or Sarah Palin — Ron Reagan didn’t hesitate:
“Just on the basis of intelligence, you would have to say Barack Obama. I don’t think my father has anything in common with Sarah Palin whatsoever,” Ron Reagan told us on ABC’s “Top Line” today. “I’m a little offended that we even have to talk about Sarah Palin, who has nothing interesting to say.
There you have it. Ronald Reagan was as intelligent as Barack Obama. You heard is straight from his back-stabbing little rat of a son.
CNBC’s Squawk Box turned to comedy on Tuesday as Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D., N.Y.) parroted President Obama’s call for more stimulus-style “investments.”
CNBC’s Squawk Box turned to comedy on Tuesday as Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D., N.Y.) parroted President Obama’s call for more stimulus-style “investments.”
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan chewed Maloney up and spit her out like a piece of bad kielbasa at the White House Super Bowl party. “When a politician in Washington says ‘investment,’” Ryan noted, “that means more government spending. That is a problem.”
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer went to court on Thursday. She filed suit against the Obama administration over its failure to notice that we have a freakin’ border between the United States and Mexico.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer went to court on Thursday. She filed suit against the Obama administration over its failure to notice that we have a freakin’ border between the United States and Mexico.
Greta Van Susteren was there with her notepad and pen and GretaWire has the details:
You don't need glasses to see the problem on the Mexican border
Governor Jan Brewer just announced . . . . on behalf of the State of Arizona, she is suing the Federal Government.
There are 5 counts . . . . and here is a summary (my notes) from the press conference.
1. failure to achieve operational control over the Mexico/Arizona border.
2. failure to protect Arizona from invasion and Arizona says invasion not just limited to other countries to invade but applies to people and secured border.
3. failure to enforce immigration laws . . . . and their failure causes national security risks . . . abuse of discretion that Fed only enforce the law they want to and they should enforce all.
4. declaratory relief about reimbursement for Fed govt’s failure to pay for incarceration of prisoners (illegal).
5. under 10th amendment . . . powers not delegated to the Fed, are reserved to the people and while control of border is fed responsibility, when criminals cross border illegally and commit crimes, it is a state responsibility and the Feds are interfering with the state to fulfill its responsibilities.
As highly-trained legal experts, we can see two huge problems with this lawsuit – problems that ordinary people who lack our extensive legal training would probably overlook.
First, it assumes that the Obama administration actually recognizes the existence of a border. And second, it assumes that they recognize the authority of the Constitution.
Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf testified before the House Budget Committee on Thursday and made a shocking admission – he expects ObamaCare to wipe out an estimated 800,000 jobs. That’s equal to every single job in the states of Delaware and South Dakota.
Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf testified before the House Budget Committee on Thursday and made a shocking admission – he expects ObamaCare to wipe out an estimated 800,000 jobs. That’s equal to every single job in the states of Delaware and South Dakota.
Here are excerpts from the exchange between Elmendorf and Republican Boy Genius Paul Ryan:
Chairman [Paul] Ryan: “[I]t’s been argued…that the new health care law will create jobs and increase labor force participation. But if I recall from your analysis, it was quite the opposite. Is that not the case?”
Director [Douglas] Elmendorf : “Yes.”…
Rep. [John] Campbell: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, we’ll — and Dr. Elmendorf — and we’ll continue this conversation right now. First on health care, before I get to — before I get to broader issues, you just mentioned that you believe — or that in your estimate, that the health care law would reduce the labor used in the economy by about 1/2 of 1 percent, given that, I believe you say, there’s 160 million full-time people working in ’20-’21. That means that, in your estimation, the health care law would reduce employment by 800,000 in ’20-’21. Is that correct?
Director Elmendorf: Yes. The way I would put it is that we do estimate, as you said, that…employment will be about 160 million by the end of the decade. Half a percent of that is 800,000.
The same guys who assured us that there were WMDs piled up in Iraq are at it again. This time they said Hosni Mubarak would resign on Thursday evening.
The same guys who assured us that there were WMDs piled up in Iraq are at it again. This time they said Hosni Mubarak would resign on Thursday evening.
Leon Panetta heads up our so-called "intelligence" community
The Associated Press reports the “never mind” moment for CIA Director Leon Panetta:
CIA Director Leon Panetta says U.S. intelligence indicates that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is on his way out.
Panetta tells Congress that his information indicates Mubarak could be out by Thursday night. He says there is a “high likelihood” of that.
Panetta did not say exactly how the CIA reached that conclusion. He says Mubarak’s exit would be “significant” in moving Egypt to an “orderly transition” of power.
When the CIA screwed up its assessment of WMDs in Iraq, Democrats began howling that “Bush lied, soldiers died.”
We’ve been monitoring this situation very closely, but have not yet heard any Democrats saying, “Obama lied, Egyptians died.”
Hosni Mubarak, who was supposed to resign on Thursday night, didn’t. And he flipped a figurative middle finger at President Obama in his non-concession speech.
Hosni Mubarak, who was supposed to resign on Thursday night, didn’t. And he flipped a figurative middle finger at President Obama in his non-concession speech.
We know the guy’s a brutal dictator, but damn, how many times have you wished we had a president with balls instead of two First Ladies?
Hosni Mubarak works his way up to flipping his middle finger at President Obama
RadioPatriot quotes Mubarak:
During the meeting with the Military Council Mubarak made the following statement:
“We are brothers, soldiers, we have bled together for Egypt, we have shed blood together. Today, we are faced by an enemy who demands we hand Egypt over to our enemies. The people of Egypt have been silenced by these insurgents and we have been more than patient. Will we all sit here and obey the Obama regime? Will we not once again, with honor stand up to our enemies? Will we not continue to stand for Egypt with honor?
Brothers, would you have me crawl away at the command of Obama? Would any of you crawl away like a dog that has been kicked? Would any of you bow down to the fools he has chosen to take our nation from us?
I leave to you, men of honor, the fate of Egypt, the honor of Egypt and in so doing, I know you will decide that which is right and honorable. We have known each other all our lives, we grew to be men together, we have eaten bread in each others houses and honored each others families. Will we now throw all that away for political expediency?”
Translation: “Screw you. I am a warrior, not a community organizer. Now shut the hell up and leave me alone.”
You’d think that “I was in Vietnam” scandal would have taught newly-elected Senator Richard Blumenthal a lesson, but no such luck. The Connecticut Democrat continues to give himself unwarranted pats on the back.
You’d think that “I was in Vietnam” scandal would have taught newly-elected Senator Richard Blumenthal a lesson, but no such luck. The Connecticut Democrat continues to give himself unwarranted pats on the back.
The CTMirror reports Blumenthal’s latest creative efforts:
Nine months after his campaign was staggered by reports that he had incorrectly claimed to have served in Vietnam, Sen. Richard Blumenthal made what seemed to be a similar misstatement Tuesday, putting himself at the center of the action in the historic 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion.
“I’m new to the Senate but I’m not new to this battle,” Blumenthal said at a Capitol Hill news conference, his first since taking office. “Since the days of Roe v. Wade, when I clerked for Justice Blackmun, as a state legislator, as attorney general, I have fought this battle.”
The problem is, Blumenthal clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun in 1974, the year after Blackmun wrote the Roe v. Wade decision.
Blumenthal’s slip might not normally generate much attention or scrutiny. But it comes on the heels of an election that focused in part of revelations that Blumenthal made similar misstatements about his Vietnam-era military service.
Upcoming Blumenthal lies: He was the first soldier ashore on D-Day. He was supposed to fly on Apollo 13, but had to study that weekend. He taught Donald Trump everything he knows about real estate. He invented the internet. And, finally, he once spent a wild weekend with Angelina Jolie.
There. That should get Blumenthal through the rest of 2011.
Within days of Keith Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow and poor Ed Schultz have fallen back behind even CNN’s meager ratings.
Dumb and dumber and dumbest have ratings that are low and lower and lowest. Within days of Keith Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow and poor Ed Schultz have fallen back behind even CNN’s meager ratings.
Lower ratings than Larry King, but higher ratings than Rachel Maddow
Mediaite.com has the details:
On a week marked by a huge international story–and hefty NBC resources committed to telling it–MSNBC marked an unpleasant milestone, dropping to third place across primetime on February 1. In perhaps the most striking defeat for the network, Lawrence O’Donnell, who took over for the departed Keith Olbermann was soundly defeated by CNN’s Parker Spitzer, a show assumed by many to be such a poor performer as to be on the chopping block. On Tuesday night, Parker Spitzer attracted 292,000 viewers 25-54, compared to O’Donnell’s 196,000.
CNN newcomer Piers Morgan, whose show Piers Morgan Tonight has had several ups and downs in its first two weeks, finished strongly ahead of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow (327,000 to 260,000). Morgan broke from single-interview format to cover the Egypt story live, and interviewed former British prime minister Tony Blair.
MSNBC’s Ed Show, which relocated to 10 p.m. in the new lineup, was nowhere near CNN’s AC 360. Cooper, who’s on assignment reporting from Cairo, led with 344,000 to Ed Schultz’s 180,000.
Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt.
Looks like President Obama’s bow to the king of Saudi Arabia only convinced the former that the latter considers himself subservient. Because now the King has issued orders to the President.
President Obama moves in close to hear his latest orders from Saudi King Abdullah
The London Times reports:
Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt.
In a testy personal telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told President Obama not to humiliate Mr Mubarak and warned that he would step in to bankroll Egypt if the US withdrew its aid programme, worth $1.5 billion annually.
America’s closest ally in the Gulf made clear that the Egyptian President must be allowed to stay on to oversee the transition towards peaceful democracy and then leave with dignity.
“Mubarak and King Abdullah are not just allies, they are close friends, and the King is not about to see his friend cast aside and humiliated,” a senior source in the Saudi capital told The Times.
Two sources confirmed details of the King’s call, made four days after the people of Egypt took to the streets. The revelation of Saudi concerns sheds new light on America’s apparent diplomatic paralysis and lays bare the biggest rift between the nations since the oil price shock of 1973…
“With Egypt in chaos, the kingdom is Washington’s only major ally left in the Arab world and the Saudis want the Americans to remember that,” said a source in Riyadh.
Well, that’s where the Saudis are wrong. They apparently haven’t heard about President Obama’s magnificent Cairo speech. You know, the one that convinced everyone in the Muslim world to love us. From what we hear it was very effective and we are universally adored in the region.
So put that in your hookah and smoke it, Abdullah.
We can only guess that they put the emphasis on the word “interfaith.” It says nothing about slaughtering people of minority sects of your own faith.
We can only guess that they put the emphasis on the word “interfaith.” It says nothing about slaughtering people of minority sects of your own faith.
NewsCorp Australia reported:
DISTURBING video has emerged of a bloody religious mob attack in Indonesia that killed three members of a minority Muslim sect, showing extremists beating and stoning their victims to death.
The incident, involving more than 1000 Muslims who stormed a house in West Java yesterday to stop the minority Ahmadiyah Islamic sect from holding worship, has been condemned by the government and rights activists.
Footage of the attack – which came at the start of “interfaith harmony week” in the mainly Muslim country – shows police doing nothing as scores of Islamic fanatics go berserk with stones, knives and sticks.
Shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) and “kafir” (infidel), the mob brush aside a lone police officer and launch a sustained attack on the house, as a small group of Ahmadis try briefly to defend the property.
Defenceless and half-naked Ahmadi men are then shown being beaten and stoned to death in the mud outside the house. Their bodies are pelted with stones and desecrated as members of the mob laugh and take pictures.
Oh, yeah, they laughed. And who could blame them? C’mon, what could be funnier than slaughtering members of your own religion during Interfaith Harmony Week. Now that’s funny.
We have the the f-word. The n-word. The c-word. The b-word. The s-word. And now the former Speaker of the House has introduced a new unspeakable word: the h-word.
We have the the f-word. The n-word. The c-word. The b-word. The s-word. And now the former Speaker of the House has introduced a new unspeakable word: the h-word. We’re running out of friggin’ alphabet here, folks.
The Examiner Vancouver reports the latest in Democrat censorship:
Fired former Speaker of the House and current Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, is going on record as saying that she wants to use censorship to ban one, particular word that she does not like. The word? “Hate.”
To hear Pelosi tell it, she really hates it when other Americans use the word “hate” in a political context. Pelosi’s overreaction is in response to the Bill O’Reilly Superbowl interview with Barack Obama, in which the host asked the president about the number of people who hate him.
Pelosi’s reply to the O’Reilly question was swift and confident: Simply stop using the word, and everything will be fine.
Sorry, Nancy, but we take this one personally. We’re kind of partial to our name. Oh, sure, in the spirit of compromise we’ve gone through the thesaurus, but nothing else works quite as well as the word “hate.” And IH-wordTheMedia.com just doesn’t seem very catchy to us.
